10gr2 is supported for E-business version from 11.5.9 CU2. Unless your e-business version is earlier than this, you can upgrade DB tier only to 10gR2. Thanks Suresh On 3/20/08, Allan Nelson <anelson77388@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Here's the defining text from the note. > > > Oracle Applications Release 11*i* (11.5.10) has numerous configuration > options that can be chosen to suit particular business scenarios, uptime > requirements, hardware capability, and availability requirements. This > document describes how to migrate Oracle Applications Release 11*i*(Release > 11.5.10.2) running on a single database instance to a Real Application > Clusters (RAC) environment running Oracle database server 10g Release 2 ( > 10.2.0.1) with Automatic Storage Management (ASM). > > Note the (Release 11.5.10.2) in the quoted text. > > We are making the change because we are currently on HP PA-RISC. HP is > discontinuing the platform. Our hardware comes off lease August of 2009 so > we have to go somewhere. HP has chosen to go with a new platform so we are > going to explore x86. I guess based on the feedback I'm getting here I'll > tell management that 10gR1 RAC is too risky. > > Allan > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Dan Norris <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Allan, > > > > I absolutely agree with Hemant--if you're making a significant change in > > architecture, presumably it is due to a business requirement for some > > better scalability and/or redundancy (HA) in the environment. If that > > assumption is correct, you'd be very wise to pick a well-supported, > > widely deployed release like 10g R2 instead of 10g R1. I think you'll > > have a much better chance at success on 10g R2 and you'll certainly find > > more helpful hints from mailing lists, forums, and (gasp) Oracle > > Support. > > > > Having said all that, I'm not an Apps DBA, but from my novice reading of > > section 1.2 in the note referenced below, I don't see the 11.5.10.2 is > > required. Maybe 11.5.10.2 is disguised as some other name that is listed > > there. The example that follows in section 2 does depict 11.5.10.2, but > > that doesn't mean that the example is using the minimums. Regardless, > > based on what little I know about apps, 11.5.10.2 does sound to be a > > Good Thing all around and something you should consider if stability, > > availability, and scalability are important to your business. > > > > Dan > > > > Hemant K Chitale wrote: > > > > > > Allan, > > > See MetaLink Note#362135.1 titled > > > "Configuring Oracle Applications Release 11i with 10g Release2 Real > > > Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management" > > > > > > You should be on 11.5.10.2 -- if you ARE taking the effort to go RAC, > > > why not CU2 ? > > > CU2 would be worth it. > > > > > > Hemant K Chitale > > > > > >