Re: upgrade grid from 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4 PSU question.

-Justin

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Nabil Jamaleddin < nmjamaleddin_at_multiservice.com> wrote:

> This was always a nice way to do the Oracle RDBMS engine. I am a bit
> surprised that GI does not allow for this.
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> BTW, it is not about tolerating downtime, it’s about making the PSU
> deploy easier and safer. Less down time is too nice because I don’t much
> like being up Sunday at 5am pushing out patches. I have always like to do
> as much as my work in the prep side and less during the actual deploy.
> Even if it means overall more time to do the project.
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> Lastly I agree that if this is not supported by oracle and no one else is
> doing this, not sure I want to be the first. I will open a service
> request with oracle just for the heck of it and see what they have to say
> about this.
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> Thanks Martin and Justin!
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> *From:* Justin Mungal [mailto:justin_at_n0de.ws]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 15, 2014 4:00 PM
> *To:* nmjamaleddin_at_multiservice.com
> *Cc:* Martin Berger; Oracle-L oracle-l
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> *Subject:* Re: upgrade grid from 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4 PSU question.
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> I wouldn't suggest you do it either. I've never heard of anyone installing
> multiple grid homes, and it's probably not even supported. If this is a
> production system, the last thing you want to do is build an unsupported
> configuration. Keeping the database available during patching is what RAC
> is all about. If you can't tolerate the short amount of downtime a PSU
> requires, you should already be running it.
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> -Justin
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> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Nabil Jamaleddin <
> nmjamaleddin_at_multiservice.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Martin,
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> I still want to try to go forward with this idea. It might be a little
> more complex than just a shutdown, rename the grid home folder and start
> backup. But if I can figure out all that needs to be done, this will be a
> very nice way of pushing out PSU patches. And makes a (if needed) back-out
> a bit easier too.
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> Besides looking into the root*.sh scripts, anything else you think might
> be a “show stopper”?
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> *From:* Martin Berger [mailto:martin.a.berger_at_gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:20 PM
> *To:* nmjamaleddin_at_multiservice.com
> *Cc:* Oracle-L oracle-l
> *Subject:* Re: upgrade grid from 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4 PSU question.
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> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Nabil Jamaleddin <
> nmjamaleddin_at_multiservice.com> wrote:
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> Once I am ready to push the new PSU out I
> will shutdown HAS, rename the gird homes and start grid back up.
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> please don't do this.
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> an upgrade between patch sets might change more than only binaries. it's
> likely (even I have not checked) some internal resources are changed.
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> If you don't run the proper root*.sh scripts, you might face very strange
> results somewhere in the future.
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