Standby and primary on different version of Solaris (7 and 8)

From: Vsevolod Afanassiev <vafanassiev_at_aapt.com.au>
Date: 19 Nov 2003 23:01:14 -0800
Message-ID: <4f7d504c.0311192301.62ffbae1@posting.google.com>

Hi,

I need to move production Oracle database (8.1.6.3.0) from one Solaris host to another with minimal outage. Both hosts have locally attached disks - no SAN. Using standby looks like a good idea:
create standby on the target host, run it for a while, open a few times in read-only mode, test that everything is OK. When the times comes just shut down the primary site and activate
standby.

There is one problem: primary site is on Solaris 7 while standby is on Solaris 8. Officially Oracle requires both OSes to be exactly the same. However in my view the differences between Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 aren't that significant (not like HP-UX 10.20 and 11). What do you think, will it work? Received on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 01:01:14 CST