1. Leave the existing RAC running. As of 11gR2 all upgrades are rolling upgrades
2. Unset ORACLE_BASE,ORACLE_HOME,ORACLE_SID,ORA_CRS_HOME,ORA_NLS10 and TNS_ADMIN. Remove from PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables any reference to existing system.
3. Prepare new locations for grid infrastructure home, scan IP, operating system user groups
4. runInstaller from the grid infrastructure software and select the upgrade option
5.Although Oracle says "Oracle recommends that you leave Oracle RAC instances running. When you start the root script on each node, that node's instances are shut down and then started up again by the rootupgrade.sh script" the installer complains but this could be ignored and proced to next step.
6. This test system only had a single node but if there were multiple nodes then Oracle "recommends that you select all cluster member nodes for the upgrade, and then shut down database instances on each node before you run the upgrade root script, starting the database instance up again on each node after the upgrade is complete"
Also Oracle "Oracle recommends that you upgrade Oracle ASM at the same time that you upgrade the Oracle Clusterware binaries. Until ASM is upgraded, Oracle databases that use ASM can't be created. Until ASM is upgraded, the 11g release 2 (11.2) ASM management tools in the Grid home (for example, srvctl) will not work."
7. Give the new SCAN IP
8. Oracle uses a less powerful asmsnmp user to monitor the asm upgrade. Give a password to be associated with this user.
9. New locations for the installation, 11gR2 grid upgrade is an out of place upgrade.
10. Summary
11. When prompted run the rootupgrade.sh script as root user
rootupgrade.sh output
/opt/app/11.2.0/grid/rootupgrade.sh Running Oracle 11g root.sh script... The following environment variables are set as: ORACLE_OWNER= oracle ORACLE_HOME= /opt/app/11.2.0/grid Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]: The file "dbhome" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n) [n]: The file "oraenv" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n) [n]: The file "coraenv" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n) [n]: Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created Finished running generic part of root.sh script. Now product-specific root actions will be performed. 2010-07-06 10:14:05: Parsing the host name 2010-07-06 10:14:05: Checking for super user privileges 2010-07-06 10:14:05: User has super user privileges Using configuration parameter file: /opt/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install/crsconfig_params Creating trace directory Cluster Synchronization Services appears healthy Event Manager appears healthy Cluster Ready Services appears healthy Shutting down Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS): Jul 06 10:14:21.900 | INF | daemon shutting down Stopping resources. This could take several minutes. Successfully stopped Oracle Clusterware resources Stopping Cluster Synchronization Services. Shutting down the Cluster Synchronization Services daemon. Shutdown request successfully issued. Shutdown has begun. The daemons should exit soon. LOCAL ADD MODE Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'.. Operation successful. root wallet root wallet cert root cert export peer wallet profile reader wallet pa wallet peer wallet keys pa wallet keys peer cert request pa cert request peer cert pa cert peer root cert TP profile reader root cert TP pa root cert TP peer pa cert TP pa peer cert TP profile reader pa cert TP profile reader peer cert TP peer user cert pa user cert Adding daemon to inittab CRS-4123: Oracle High Availability Services has been started. ohasd is starting CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.mdnsd' on 'hpc1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.mdnsd' on 'hpc1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.gipcd' on 'hpc1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.gipcd' on 'hpc1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.gpnpd' on 'hpc1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'hpc1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'hpc1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'hpc1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.cssd' on 'hpc1' CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.diskmon' on 'hpc1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.diskmon' on 'hpc1' succeeded CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.cssd' on 'hpc1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.ctssd' on 'hpc1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.ctssd' on 'hpc1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.crsd' on 'hpc1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.crsd' on 'hpc1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.evmd' on 'hpc1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.evmd' on 'hpc1' succeeded clscfg: EXISTING configuration version 4 detected. clscfg: version 4 is 11 Release 1. Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys. Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'.. Operation successful. hpc1 2010/07/06 10:17:18 /opt/app/11.2.0/grid/cdata/crs_10g_cluster/backup_20100706_101718.ocr Start upgrade invoked.. Started to upgrade the Oracle Clusterware. This operation may take a few minutes. Started to upgrade the CSS. The CSS was successfully upgraded. Started to upgrade the OCR. The OCR was successfully upgraded. Started to upgrade the CRS. The CRS was successfully upgraded. Successfully upgraded the Oracle Clusterware. Oracle Clusterware operating version was successfully set to 11.2.0.1.0 hpc1 2010/07/06 10:19:49 /opt/app/11.2.0/grid/cdata/hpc1/backup_20100706_101949.olr Preparing packages for installation... cvuqdisk-1.0.7-1 Configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster ... succeeded Updating inventory properties for clusterware Starting Oracle Universal Installer... Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 12001 MB Passed The inventory pointer is located at /etc/oraInst.loc The inventory is located at /opt/app/oraInventory 'UpdateNodeList' was successful. Starting Oracle Universal Installer... Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 12001 MB Passed The inventory pointer is located at /etc/oraInst.loc The inventory is located at /opt/app/oraInventory 'UpdateNodeList' was successful.12. Click on the OUI window which will then run the ASMCA to upgrade the ASM followed by the DB Control upgrade. Once these upgrades are done, upgrade of clusterware is completed.
13. crs_stat is deprecated in 11gR2 but still works. Instead should use crsctl
crs_stat -t Name Type Target State Host ------------------------------------------------------------ ora.DATA.dg ora....up.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora.FLASH.dg ora....up.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora....ER.lsnr ora....er.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora....N1.lsnr ora....er.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora.asm ora.asm.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora....b1.inst application ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora.clusdb.db application ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora.eons ora.eons.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora.gsd ora.gsd.type OFFLINE OFFLINE ora.hpc1.vip ora....t1.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora....network ora....rk.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora.oc4j ora.oc4j.type OFFLINE OFFLINE ora.ons ora.ons.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora....ry.acfs ora....fs.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 ora.scan1.vip ora....ip.type ONLINE ONLINE hpc1 crsctl check crs CRS-4638: Oracle High Availability Services is online CRS-4537: Cluster Ready Services is online CRS-4529: Cluster Synchronization Services is online CRS-4533: Event Manager is online14. Vote disk is still in the block device, though not supported for new installation, it's still a valid location for upgrades
./crsctl query css votedisk ## STATE File Universal Id File Name Disk group -- ----- ----------------- --------- --------- 1. ONLINE 755a7dc1e2cfcf76bf5b79632d35b4a9 (/dev/sdc6) [] Located 1 voting disk(s).15. OCR is also in a block device same as vote disk. Not supported as a location for new installation but valid for upgrades.
ocrcheck Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows : Version : 3 Total space (kbytes) : 148348 Used space (kbytes) : 4308 Available space (kbytes) : 144040 ID : 552644455 Device/File Name : /dev/sdc5 Device/File integrity check succeeded Device/File not configured Device/File not configured Device/File not configured Device/File not configured Cluster registry integrity check succeeded Logical corruption check bypassed due to non-privileged user16. /etc/oratab is auto upgraded with the new location of the ASM home, with 11gR2 it is same as grid infrastructure home
+ASM1:/opt/app/11.2.0/grid:N17. /etc/inittab now has the oracle high availability service daemon entry not the three clusterware entires as before
tail /etc/inittab h1:35:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.ohasd run >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null18.Finally to confrim the active,release and software versions
crsctl query crs activeversion Oracle Clusterware active version on the cluster is [11.2.0.1.0] crsctl query crs releaseversion Oracle High Availability Services release version on the local node is [11.2.0.1.0] crsctl query crs softwareversion Oracle Clusterware version on node [hpc1] is [11.2.0.1.0]
