Yong, see Note:337737.1<https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=BULLETIN&id=337737.1> : The Oracle Grid Infrastructure/Clusterware (CRS) version must be the highest version down to the 4th digit in the possible combinations at all times. This means you have to upgrade Grid Infrastructure/Clusterware first. That's the best I found - at least you follow this rule. If you deinstall/reinstall the full GI stack and reinstall it afterwards, you will be able to use all the ASM disks - nothing to change there. Just the creation of cluster resources for DBs/Instances is needed. I'd install in a new OH and do a rolling upgrade. Even not done to 11.2.0.3 I've done it several times up to 11.2.0.2. hth Martin On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 20:27, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a 2-node RAC 11.2.0.2 running on 64-bit Red Hat Linux. > Documentation says we can't do in-place upgrade of the grid infrastructure, > and we don't want to do out-of-place upgrade. So the only option is to > deinstall 11.2.0.2 and reinstall 11.2.0.3. Can the new grid infrastructure > work with the existing 11.2.0.2 database (which can be upgraded later)? If > you know the page in the documentation, please share the URL. Thank you. > > Downtime is not an issue. We can also extract ASM metadata with md_backup > command inside asmcmd. But we don't know the data it creates can be restored > by md_restore of the newly installed grid. > > Yong Huang > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l