Re: 11.2.0.3: Re-install grid and in-place upgrade of DB

• On Thu, 9/29/11, Martin Berger <martin.a.berger_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Martin Berger <martin.a.berger_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: 11.2.0.3: Re-install grid and in-place upgrade of DB
> To: yong321_at_yahoo.com
> Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011, 3:29 PM
> Yong,
> see Note:337737.1<https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=BULLETIN&id=337737.1>
> :
> The Oracle Grid Infrastructure/Clusterware (CRS) version
> must be the highest
> version down to the 4th digit in the possible combinations
> at all times.
> This means you have to upgrade Grid
> Infrastructure/Clusterware first.
> That's the best I found - at least you follow this rule.
>
> If you deinstall/reinstall the full GI stack and reinstall
> it afterwards,
> you will be able to use all the ASM disks - nothing to
> change there. Just
> the creation of cluster resources for DBs/Instances is
> needed.
>
> I'd install in a new OH and do a rolling upgrade. Even not
> done to 11.2.0.3
> I've done it several times up to 11.2.0.2.
>
> hth
> Martin
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 20:27, Yong Huang <yong321_at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have a 2-node RAC 11.2.0.2 running on 64-bit Red Hat
> Linux.
> > Documentation says we can't do in-place upgrade of the
> grid infrastructure,
> > and we don't want to do out-of-place upgrade. So the
> only option is to
> > deinstall 11.2.0.2 and reinstall 11.2.0.3. Can the new
> grid infrastructure
> > work with the existing 11.2.0.2 database (which can be
> upgraded later)? If
> > you know the page in the documentation, please share
> the URL. Thank you.
> >
> > Downtime is not an issue. We can also extract ASM
> metadata with md_backup
> > command inside asmcmd. But we don't know the data it
> creates can be restored
> > by md_restore of the newly installed grid.
> >
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