Datacenter move with the same disks!

We are about to move into a new building. However, we are doing the cheapest way since management will allow systems to be down over the weekend. No duplicate hardware in new building to support replication or stand by databases.

We have about 150 instances on Sun E10K, 4x00,6x00 and Dell Servers running various windows flavors. Disk Arrays are RAID 0+1 in production for the most part and RAID5 for the most part on dev, test, and QA.

1. Brings apps down and databases..
2. Backup everything twice!
3. Unplug everthing and put in a truck and move! 10 miles away.
4. Plug up everything in new building and have vendor recertify.
5. Bring OS up, then bring up database, then bring up apps testing each stage of the way.

If everything is perfect there will be no issues!!!!

I am wondering if before we bring the databases up if we should run DBVERFIY against all the databases. I do plan to do an export after each database comes back up to see if I can spot any logical corruption. I don't expect any if the trucks don't wreck but I need to cover all bases.

DBVERIFY takes a long time against our datafiles. Received on Sat Jan 25 2003 - 06:39:30 CST