Re: rhel upgrade - rhel 5.6 to rhel linux 6

   So ... I suggest a full backup of your data and please do a FRESH install on both your OS/RDBMS.

  before that , you can export data and try to establish a test env. to import and verify...

Regards,
-suse

2012/9/5 Michael McMullen <ganstadba_at_hotmail.com>

> No rac here, just single db instance using asm.
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> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:22:39 +0800
> Subject: Re: rhel upgrade - rhel 5.6 to rhel linux 6
> From: sinosuse_at_gmail.com
> To: ganstadba_at_hotmail.com
> CC: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
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> well, it depends on how you use ASM, since you're using udev, it should
> not be ok, but... it doesnt support ROLLING UPGRADE yet.
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> because when 1 el6 node and 1 el5 node share the 1 storage, it's not
> stable/safe.
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> If the os upgrade is a MUST, I recommend you to backup all data, shutdown
> stacks, upgrade os 1 by 1 and re-install clusterware/db, up stacks, if no
> errors, use addnode to plus the rest then....
> I think it a good idea to freshinstall after os upgrade on somenodes...
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> Thanks,
> -suse
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> 2012/9/4 Michael McMullen <ganstadba_at_hotmail.com>
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> current
> rhel 5.6
> oracle 11.2.0.2 with asm(udev) and oem agents
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> sysadmins would like to upgrade to rhel linux 6.
> I'm thinking we would upgrade to 11.2.0.3 and then do the linux upgrade.
> I'm worried that asm would have troubles. I would prefer to just set up new
> vm's with rhel 6 and the impdp the data. I'll start testing but am
> wondering if anyone has done this.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
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