Grid Infrastructure

Oracle Grid Infrastructure 26ai/ ASM upgrade from 19c one node.

This is second part of 26ai migration blog. We will upgrade here one node Clusterware with ASM in 19c. We will use newest 23.26.1 GoldImages from oracle support. This tutorial showing main steps how to perform upgrade, its not(…)

Oracle 19c Grid Infrastructure for a cluster

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this previous blog , we deal with Oracle Restart and ACFS. We saw that using ACFS with Oracle Restart will require some manual tasks. The solution is to install a Grid Infrastructure(…)

Oracle Restart 19c and ACFS

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog we are going to install an Oracle Restart 19c with ASM Filter Driver (AFD). I am using following configuration -Oracle 19c -Oracle Linux Server 7.6 -Kernel 4.14.35-1902.2.0.el7uek.x86_64 Once the Oracle Restart(…)

Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.3 PSU: My Opatch version check is failing

Mouhamadou Diaw Last day I was configuring grid infrastructure 11.2.0.3 for a standlone server. After the installation, I decided to apply the Patch Set Update 11.2.0.3.7 (Includes Database PSU 11.2.0.3.7) – 16742216 In the documentation it is marked(…)

Grid Infrastructure 12.2: Are all Redhat 7 kernels compatible?

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog I am going to share an issue I had when installing grid infrastructure 12.2 on Redhat 7.3. I was configuring grid infrastructure 12.2 for a standlone server. Below the release and the version of(…)

Grid Infrastructure Installation on SLES 12 SP1

This week I needed to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c release 1 in a SLES 12 SP1 environment. Everything worked fine until I ran the root.sh at the end of the installation. Here’s a quick description of the problem and(…)

OCM 12c preparation: restore Voting disks, OCR and ASM spfile

By Franck Pachot . As in the previous posts, here are a few commands I used to check that I know how to restore the cluster mandatory files in 12c. It's what I'm doing while preparing the OCM 12c exam,(…)

Upgrading the Grid Infrastructure from 12.1.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 on the command line

A lot of people use the graphical way to upgrade Oracle software from one version to another. While there is nothing to say against that the same can be done without any graphical tools. This post outlines the steps to(…)

The scripts of my DOAG 2015 session: Automated GI/RAC staging with Cobbler and VirtualBox

I promised to upload the scripts of my session to our blog. So, here they are: create_12102_gi_rac_project.sh: This one creates the 12.1.0.2 GI/RAC project on the cobbler server finish_ora_12102_gi_rac_project.sh: This one does the configuration of the GI/RAC on(…)

ODA – VMs possibilities & performances

As you know it is possible to install the ODA in a virtualized mode and to take avantages from all cores not licensed with Enterprise Edition for additional VMs. The question is what could we do with it and(…)