Re: Registering 10g ASM in 11g CRS

  • From: John Thompson <jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kevin.lidh@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:30:38 -0600

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
>

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