RE: Moving oracle to new platform.
- From: <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:04:54 -0400
Our sys admin wants to do a hardware refresh essentially moving from
solaris Sun Sparce 5.8, 5.9 to 5.10 (and virtualize) on Sun Sparc,
(lease is up this summer on old hardware). Management has asked him to
write up (cost analysis), and consider other platforms such as HU-UX,
x86, AIX, ... Especially Solaris 5.10 on x86. (cost).
Not sure if your first reaction is the same as mine.... (moving
everything).
I'll check the obvious like pre-requisites for transportable
tablespaces, but there may be considerations that are not coming
directly to mind that have costs... Like will all my existing tools
continue to work. The down time and testing. Applications and oracle
binaries need to be re-installed, Is the base software still available
for the new platform for every oracle home? We have 9.2.0.5, 10.1.0.2,
10.1.0.4, and 10.2.0.4, Also Enterprise manager Grid Control, (and this
would be a new IP I'm sure - groan).
These are fairly straight forward and out of the box. Is there
something in your experiences you can recall and mention?
The general theme around here is that the amount of added work it would
take would negate just about the best case scenario, or if it was close
would create a huge off hours working environment. With IT being the
way it is, there are a lot of single points of failure with regards to
specialists here.
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