RE: Cloning Oracle versus Installing from OUI
- From: "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx>
- To: <Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:18:38 -0500
I think this is more of a mandate on install rather than just a good
idea. Unless your SAs can *guarantee* that each OS is at the exact
patch level as the one you created the install on, you *must* "relink
all" after your copy. Got into a world of hurt doing that on HP-UX
once.
My (late) $.02,
Rich
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nuno Souto
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:36 PM
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Subject: Re: Cloning Oracle versus Installing from OUI
Quoting MVR <yoursraju007@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I proposed a plan to make a good working Oracle home(with all the
> patches installed) and making an image and using the same image for
> all other nodes with the same platform and hardware. The process is
> tar, untar them and to run clone.pl for the home on target node. This
> saves us lot of time(for installing 10g R2 using OUI). But my
> teammates are not okay with that stating that it may get us some
> problems. We have already cloned it for multiple boxes and ZERO
> issues. But still people are afraid to put that home in prod.
>
No problems with this sort of approach. Just make sure that
you can re-make oracle after the clonable base-set is created:
you may well need to do so at some stage for emergency patches
or OS updates.
Beats the heck out of running OUI across long-distance connections,
even in silent response mode. Why Oracle had to ditch the
character mode install in favour of the OUI gui abortion still beats
me to this day: it's like, they never tried the darn thing
themselves on a slow line? What, customers should not have
remote data centres reachable only by slow lines?
Yeah! Right...
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Cheers
Nuno Souto
from sunny Sydney
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