Oracle 11g binaries and different Sun architectures: sun4u and sun4v

Hi,

Are the Oracle 11g binaries installed on our v890 (sun4u architecture, Solaris 10) the same as the Oracle binaries on a T2000 (sun4v architecture, Solaris 10)?

Background
We want to use our current v890's system disks to create a "duplicate" environment on a T2000. We use "flar's" for this purpose all the time. However, this is the first time we've gone from one architecture to another arch. The standard flar process won't work in this case. But Sun (Oracle) has a workaround that makes the flar method possible.

If that process works, we would end up with the Oracle binaries from the v890/sun4u environment on the T2000 -- we just copy over the Oracle software. We don't re-install Oracle. Again, this has worked fine and many times when going from sun4u to sun4u. But I'm thinking the Oracle binaries may not work at all or might have problems and might need to be re-installed on the T2000 If so, it would affect our plans.
Or there may be no issue at all. I don't know.

So, are the same Oracle binaries used for both a Solaris 10 on sun4u arch. and a Solaris 10 on sun4v arch.?

Thanks,
Jon Received on Thu Aug 05 2010 - 13:30:35 CDT