Re: Opatch auto and patch shared-home

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:30:18 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10saMZ_ToDVjjCu+ddO_yron80hkmNzVnAX5oGe-aqCejqw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Which is why a reasonable practice is to deploy pre-validated gold images and to migrate databases from one home to another.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Justin Mungal <justin_at_n0de.ws> wrote:

> Disregard, I missed the "shared home" part. The supplemental patch
> instructions for the JUL2014 PSU (Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.4.x
> Patch Set Update SUPPLEMENTAL README (Doc ID 1641136.1)) states that the
> RAC databases must be stopped before patching the shared home, meaning that
> no RAC database instances will be running.
>
> If you have a shared home for 2 databases, you'd have to take down both
> databases in order to patch the home. If you want to run databases at
> different patch levels, they should be run from separate homes.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:39 AM, sumit Tyagi <dba.tyagisumit_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> During "Opatch auto" what happens to the sessions that are connected on
>> node1 of RAC . Optach auto started from node1 and RAC is having 2 node
>> setup.
>>
>> Also if we have a shared home for say 2 databases on a non-rac setup and
>> we want to patch only one database how to go about it.
>>
>> *--*
>> *BR*
>> *Sumit Tyagi*
>>
>>
>

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