What OS and version are you using? If you're on Redhat, 11gR2 requires RHEL5. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Kevin Lidh <kevin.lidh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I support a couple of production 10gR2 (10.2.0.4.0) clustered > environments. One customer wants to upgrade to 11gR2 and I'm assuming the > other will sometime in the near future. In order to prepare for this, I > built a virtual environment to practice the upgrade process. I've done > single instance environments but this would be my first cluster. I was able > to get through almost all of the install until the final configuration > steps. The ASM configuration failed for some reason. So now, I have 11gR2 > Grid Infrastructure and 10gR2 ASM and RDBMS. I've tried to use OUI and > asmca to do the upgrade but OUI never gives me the option and asmca tells me > that ASM isn't registered. srvctl in 11gR2 doesn't have the -o option to > set the ORACLE_HOME so when I re-add ASM, it gives it the grid > infrastructure home and updates my /etc/oratab thusly. > > I have a backup of my baseline 10gR2 environment and plan on trying to > figure out why the configuration failed in the first place but I'd like to > figure out how to fix this first. I'm assuming that there's a configuration > file somewhere in the 11gR2 grid infrastructure that says my ASM is 11gR2 > which is why it keeps configuring it that way. I haven't found the "manual > upgrade" document in MOS although MOS states that you can do that as the > most undesirable method. > > Any insight into this would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Kevin >