Re: Oracle 11g binaries and different Sun architectures: sun4u and sun4v
From: John Hurley <hurleyjohnb_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 13:13:23 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <9b5acdec-1fcb-4e8e-84df-2bce446fcab5_at_i24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 5, 2:30 pm, Jon <jonelwoodpr..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 13:13:23 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <9b5acdec-1fcb-4e8e-84df-2bce446fcab5_at_i24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 5, 2:30 pm, Jon <jonelwoodpr..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Well since Oracle now owns sun a place to ask might be the Big Admin site.
We just have one sun box running Oracle still here ... and it is a low maintenance app.
I think the sun4u stuff was related to 64 bit and the T2000 is definitely 64 bit so probably this may work ok. Received on Thu Aug 05 2010 - 15:13:23 CDT