About types of upgrade
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About types of upgrade

SF Oracle RAC supports various ways of upgrading your cluster to the latest version. Choose a method that best suits your environment and supports your planned upgrade path.

Table: Types of upgrade lists the supported types of upgrade.

Table: Types of upgrade

Type of upgrade

Method of upgrade

Procedures

Full upgrade

Veritas script-based installation programs

  • Interactive mode

  • Non-interactive mode using response files

Veritas Web-based installation program

Complete the following steps:

Phased upgrade

Combination of manual steps and the Veritas script-based installation programs

Note:

SF Oracle RAC does not support phased upgrades using the Web installer.

Complete the steps in the chapter Performing a phased upgrade to SF Oracle RAC 6.0.1.

Rolling upgrade

Veritas script-based installation programs

Veritas Web-based installation program

Complete the steps in the chapter Performing a rolling upgrade to SF Oracle RAC 6.0.1.

Alternate Disk Upgrade

Combination of native operating system upgrade mechanism and the Veritas script-based installation programs

Note:

SF Oracle RAC does not support the use of Web installer for native operating system upgrade mechanisms.

Complete the following steps:

  • Upgrading to SF Oracle RAC 6.0.1

    See the chapter Upgrading to SF Oracle RAC 6.0.1 using an alternate disk.

  • Completing post-upgrade tasks

    See the chapter Performing post-upgrade tasks.

Network Install Manager Alternate Disk Migration

Combination of native operating system upgrade mechanism and the Veritas script-based installation programs

Note:

SF Oracle RAC does not support the use of Web installer for native operating system upgrade mechanisms.

Complete the following steps:

  • Upgrading to SF Oracle RAC 6.0.1

    See the chapter Upgrading SF Oracle RAC using Network Install Manager Alternate Disk Migration.

  • Completing post-upgrade tasks

    See the chapter Performing post-upgrade tasks.
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