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

From: Eric Jenkinson <erichjenkinson_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:01:23 -0700
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Yes it was releases last week.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:54 AM, dba1 mcc <mccdba1_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does ORACLE 11.2.0.3 official come out?
>
>
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> --- 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.
> > >
> > > Yong Huang
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