Re: Oracle 11.2.1.3 Without upgrading Solaris OS to Sol 10 u6 as recommended by Oracle ???
- From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: raindoctor@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:10:33 -0500
It may work, but the trouble you will have is that Oracle probably wont
support the configuration, which will put you on your own when problems come
up. Plus, to be sure everything works properly you will have to validate
every process, and every single component you use in your application. I
would think the required testing alone would make it cheaper to do the
upgrade by the book.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Pedro Alvarez Espinoza <
raindoctor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I were you, I woudn't tread the path you are on. Sure, you can install
> some software after all majority of them are dynamically linked. Look at how
> oracle binaries depend upon solaris 10u7: c libraries (libc.so) and features
> that new kernel supports in the area of memory and process management. When
> $h1t hits the fan, it boils down to these dependencies. That's why it is
> better to follow the recommendations of oracle, if one doesn't know how
> binaries are inter related. Even if you are an l33t systems programmer with
> deep knowledge in these areas, it is not worth playing with prod boxes.
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> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Pankaj Jain <pjain@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> *Has any body run into any issue by doing following ?*
>> We have installed successfully 11.2 software on our database servers
>> having Solaris Sparc 64 bit server and "Sol 10 u5" OS, even though oracle
>> recommend 11 u6, which we don't want since it is increasing our downtime
>> drastically.
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>> *Server name*
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>> *Succeeded*
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>> * Server A*
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>> *Sol 10 u5*
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>> *Yes*
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>> * Server B*
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>> *Sol 10 u7 ( higher patch level then recommended by oracle )*
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>> *NO*
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>> Server on Which 11.2 installation was successful, following Prerequisites
>> were not met :
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>> - OS kernel version ( should be at least 5.10-2008.10 , and is
>> 5.10-2008.03 )
>> - OS Patch 119963-14
>> - OS Patch 120753-06
>> - OS Patch 124861-15
>> *- OS Patch 139574-03*
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>> These prerequisites were ignored , and the installation *succeeded*.
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>> On the Server B ( failed ) installation the Prerequisites that were not
>> met were the following :
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>> - OS Patch 119963-14
>> - OS Patch 120753-06
>> - OS Patch 124861-15
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>> i.e – only a subset of the above.( notice that the OS kernel version
>> requirement *was* met here )
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>> These prerequisites were ignored During the installation got several
>> errors about not being able to create soft links. I went ahead and
>> created these soft links myself – there were about 10 or so of them. After
>> that the installation on "Server B " was successful as well.
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>> *Now the question is is it safe to conclude that we do not need any OS
>> upgrade to patch level 6, 7 or 8 if we intend to upgrade our 10g
>> production servers into 11gR2 ?? Guru's need your insight here,
>> predicting which component of Oracle might fail in this way. !!!*
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>> *Pankaj Jain*
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