Re: upgrading 8174 to 9i on Sun Cluster 2.2

On 2 Feb 2004 19:58:41 -0800, teehan_at_hotmail.com (dba) wrote:

>I am running solaris 7, SC 2.2 and oracle 8174 HA. I need to upgrade
>everything mentioned to the latest, and I would prefer to do the
>database first as a big bang approach will be too dangerous for a
>large production system.
>I will have to run the latest 9i release on SC 2.2 - I doubt this will
>work, if only because 'connect internal' is desupported, so SC2.2
>cannot start the databases.
>I may have to turn off HA services entirely until SC3.0 is installed.
>Has anyone done a similar upgrade; how did you do it?
>
>Thanks!
>Mark

This can be done, as all the HA control for oracle is shell scripts, and you can just change the bits that do the connection. There may also be a file called RELVER somewhere. I seem to remember having to do something to trick the HA monitor for oracle (the only thing that isn't a script), but it doesn't connect internal anyway.

I also remember thinking that the person who wrote those scripts didn't know enough about oracle, and resisting the temptation to change more than necessary.

And of course, you are instantly unsupported when you do this, but considering the amount of support you can get for SC 2.2 these days...

And don't forget to test failover scenarios.

And it's all at your own risk...

Regards,

Eric Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 11:44:57 CST