Re: Different OS versions between Test and Prod

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:45:01 -0800
Message-ID: <1143755091.965976@yasure.drizzle.com>

Bob Jones wrote:

> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message 
> news:1143738407.810442_at_yasure.drizzle.com...
>> Bob Jones wrote:
>>> "Dave" <david.best_at_gmail.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:1143669554.197833.80550_at_j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> Question... our architect's are trying to push us to install Solaris
>>>> 10 on our new dev/test boxes instead of 8, which is our production
>>>> version. There are currently no plans to upgrade prod to Solaris 10.
>>>> With the hardware we ordered there are no issues with installing
>>>> Solaris 8. I've been resisting because I don't want to support an
>>>> environment where the OSes are out of sync. While I agree that the
>>>> risk is probably minimal I want a plan in place to upgrade prod before
>>>> I signoff on test.
>>>>
>>>> Am I being anal? I've talked to other DBA's and they agree with me,
>>>> but to make my problem a bit more difficult, a DBA in my group has
>>>> already let this happen in one of their environments.
>>>>
>>>> tnx.
>>>>

>>> No, you are not being anal. You are just doing your job.
>>>
>>> The same version of Oracle should behave the same on Solaris 8 or 10. 
>>> Your existing apps should work fine, unless in an unlikely case there are 
>>> Oracle bugs affecting only one version of Solaris.
>> I was going to stay out of this but you've hit a hot button.
>>
>> In theory what you say is true. But in reality we know it is not.
>>
>> While I will acknowledge using vanilla Oracle functionality you likely
>> will see no issues ... move to RAC or Grid Control other pieces of the
>> puzzle and this is clearly not the case.
>>
>> The answer to the OP should be ... "depends" ... which most often is
>> the correct answer to any question asked.
>> -- 
> 
> Ok, so what specifically is the difference between RAC on Solaris 8 or 10? 
> In fact, I could answer all questions here with simply "depends", but that's 
> not very helpful, is it? 

Don't have the exact answer here at my desk but I would expect differences in libraries, differences in compilers, and differences in security implementation for sure.

I'll give you a simple example from RedHat Linux. Want to run Grid Control? Better be in RedHat 3: Not 4.

A check of metalink may show differences in patches required between Solaris 8 and 10 ... undoubtedly will methinks.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Thu Mar 30 2006 - 15:45:01 CST