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

From: Darren Dunham <ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:06:06 GMT
Message-ID: <ivnbh.17036$9v5.7245@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>

In comp.unix.solaris Bruce <brucemcgill.nyc_at_gmail.com> 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?

Under normal circumstances the Solaris 10 installer will find SDS devices and bring them over as SVM devices.

Of course lots of things can happen during an install, so you'd want to have a backup.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham_at_taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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Received on Wed Nov 29 2006 - 16:06:06 CST