Re: Question about changing GI Home
- From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Chad.Cleveland@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <Chad.Cleveland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 16:52:57 -0500
Hi chad - maybe it's just my email client, but I don't see the attachment.
Could the listserv have stripped it?
Can you give a little more detail about how the process is failing for you?
-Jeremy
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> On Jun 6, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Chad Cleveland <Chad.Cleveland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Good Afternoon!
>
> I was able to prove the process for moving a Grid Infrastructure home to a
> new location. Moved GI from /u01/app/grid/11.2.0.4 to /u01/app/grid/11.2.0.3
> on a two-node cluster. I started by following Oracle’s documentation at
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e41961/rem_orcl.htm#CWLIN2955
> and failed repeatedly. I opened an SR and they sent me the same link and
> said follow this.
>
> My documentation is attached.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chad Cleveland
> Oracle Database Administrator
> datAvail Corporation
> 11800 Ridge Parkway, Suite 125
> Broomfield, Colorado 80021
> chad.cleveland@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jeremy Schneider
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 9:12 AM
> To: Deas, Scott
> Cc: ORACLE-L (oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> Subject: Re: Question about changing GI Home
>
> I've done a bunch of PSU applications using a similar process, and I've found
> that it's really not too complicated to switch the GI home (as long as it
> works at all <g>). I haven't tested the process of just switching homes but
> as long as it works in your test like the documentation says, then I wouldn't
> be suspicious. Alternatively, you could just install 11.2.0.4 into a
> different directory - like just 11204 or crs11204. Personally, my top level
> grid directories are like "crs112038r2" where the 8 reflects the PSU number
> and the revision is for multiple builds (different one-off patches) on the
> same PSU. In general it's a good idea to follow OFA for directory layouts,
> but it's not a huge deal to diverge when you have a good reason - and
> honestly the OFA standards around GI are a still a bit conjectural anyway
> (IMO).
>
>
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> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Deas, Scott <Scott.Deas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We had a contractor (no longer with us) who performed an install of GI
> 11.2.0.3 on a Red Hat Linux 6.4 cluster (2 nodes) into an 11.2.0.4 directory
> structure (/u01/app/grid/11.2.0.4).
>
> Well, now we want to upgrade from 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4 and are trying to find
> the cleanest way to do this. Some ideas have included wiping the host (not
> preferred), de-installing GI, moving 11.2.0.3 binaries and performing brand
> new install (as if the original never existed).
>
> A co-worker found the following document from Oracle that talks about
> changing the GI home path, which seems like the simplest way to do it:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e41961/rem_orcl.htm#CWLIN2955
>
>
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