Re: upgrade from solaris 8 to solaris 10 with Oracle 9i database

From: Thommy M. <thommy.m.malmstrom_at_gmail.com>
Date: 29 Nov 2006 07:33:02 -0800
Message-ID: <1164814382.362774.261210@14g2000cws.googlegroups.com>

Bruce wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a Sun Fire V250 with 6X72 GB HDDs. Two of them are mirrored
> to each other while the rest are configured as RAID 5. The RAID 5
> devices run Oracle 9i and Oracle EBusiness suite. I have been asked to
> upgrade to Solaris 10. I have no problem regarding downtime as it is a
> standby server. Will the upgrade go smoothly? Solaris 8 uses DiskSuite
> whereas Solaris 10 comes with SVM. If I go with the "PRESERVE" option,
> will the data stay intact? Has anyone faced any problem?

Shut Oracle down, unmount the raid (and comment it out in /etc/vfstab) then break the mirror and arrange /etc/vfstab to use only one disk.

Do upgrade to that one disk (the other is a "backup"). Mount the raid and test.
If it works attach the "backup" disk as a mirror... otherwise fallback to "backup"
disk. Received on Wed Nov 29 2006 - 09:33:02 CST