Re: Issues during IBM P6 to P7 migration
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:44:42 -0400
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These are VMAX storage and servers on vIO. IBM and EMC are investigating this issue already but since the problems have only occured on oracle systems, there are raised eyebrows. We are really not sure what or where the issue is exactly, that makes it more complicated. I'll try to get the answer of first question in detail and share it.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Fuad Arshad <fuadar_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> how was the migration being done
> I've done a lot of power 6 to power 7 migrations with no issues
> are you sure the issue is with the power boxes and not the way the
> underlying storage is being presented or being replicated etc
>
> Fuad
>
>
> > On Oct 2, 2013, at 18:02, Saad Khan <saad4u_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We are in the middle of migration our Oracle environment on IBM AIX 6.1
> > from POWER6 to P7. Versions are either 10.2.0.4 or 11.2. We thought it'd
> be
> > a normal migration but unfortunately 3 out of 4 test environments ran
> into
> > problems. One of them corrupted datafiles while one corrupted three LUNs
> > which in the end resulted in DB files corruption ofcourse.
> > Has anyone in the list gone through this Power systems migration?
> > Encountered into any errors?
> >
> > I know the OS are certified ones and Oracle is certified on Power
> machines
> > as well. I've digged in metalink and found one recommended note for
> tuning
> > but thats all they have.
> > Now the fun part is, systems team is sure they have migrated around 100
> > database servers with DB2 and other databases, and none of them got any
> > issues.
> >
> > Please share any experiences if you have or any gotchas that should be
> > taken care of.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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