Upgrading GI and Database from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3

Upgrading Grid Infrastructure

Oracle Clusterware upgrades can be rolling upgrades, in which a subset of nodes are brought down and upgraded while other nodes remain active. Oracle Automatic Storage Management 11g release 2 (11.2) upgrades can be rolling upgrades. If you upgrade a subset of nodes, then a software-only installation is performed on the existing cluster nodes that you do not select for upgrade.

Consider following MOS notes before going for any RAC upgrades

Things to Consider Before Upgrading to 11.2.0.3 Grid Infrastructure/ASM[ID1363369.1]
RACcheck 11.2.0.3 Upgrade Readiness Assessment [ID 1457357.1]

Setup:

	Existing 11gR2 RAC setup (Before Upgrade)	Target 11gR2 RAC Setup (After Upgrade)
Clusterware	Oracle 11g R2 Clusterware 11.2.0.1	Oracle 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.3
Cluster Name	racdb-cluster	racdb-cluster
Cluster Nodes	rac1, rac2	rac1, rac2
GRID Home	/u01/app/11.2.0/grid	/u01/app/11.2.0/grid_1
GRID Owner	grid:(oinstall, dba)	grid:(oinstall, dba)
DB Binaries	Oracle 11gR2 RAC (11.2.0.1)	Oracle 11gR2 RAC (11.2.0.3)
DB_HOME	/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1	/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_3
DB_HOME Owner	oracle:(oinstall, dba)	oracle:(oinstall, dba)
OS Platform	Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 (64 bit)	Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 (64 bit)

Note:

To upgrade existing 11.2.0.1 Oracle Grid Infrastructure to any later version installations to Oracle Grid Infrastructure (11.2.0.2 or 11.2.0.3), you must patch existing GI with patch PATCH 9413827

Software requirement
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1. 11.2.0.3.0 GI and DB patchset (11.2.0.3 patch 10404530)

2. Latest Opatch software required for upgrade

3. Bug patch PATCH 9413827 (as recommended)  –> Follow bugpatch readme for installing this patch

Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation

We will be doing an out-of place upgrade as in-place upgrade isn’t supported

Checks to Complete Before Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation

1. Take backup of the existing GI,RDBMS binaries and the database

2. Run cluvfy tool to check all requirements are met (from 11.2.0.3 software)

runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -upgrade -n rac1.localdomain,rac2.localdomain -rolling -src_crshome /u01/app/11.2.0/grid -dest_crshome /u01/app/11.2.0/grid2 -dest_version 11.2.0.3.0 -fixup -fixupdir /u02/soft/ -verbose

cluvfy-output

Perform the modifications as suggested by cluvfy tool.

3. For the installation owner running the installation, if you have environment variables set for the existing installation, then unset the environment variables$ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_SID, as these environment variables are used during upgrade. For example:

$ unset ORACLE_BASE

$ unset ORACLE_HOME

$ unset ORACLE_SID

4. Go to GI software directory and start runInstaller file on node1 . At this point RAC instances are running on both nodes.

5. Installation screens can be found below along with running of rootupgrade.sh. You can see that software will be installed on both nodes.

 

               

6. Check if GI is upgraded or not

[grid@kens-racnode1 ~]$ crsctl query crs activeversion

Oracle Clusterware active version on the cluster is [11.2.0.3.0]

[grid@kens-racnode1 ~]$ crsctl query crs releaseversion

Oracle High Availability Services release version on the local node is [11.2.0.3.0]

[grid@kens-racnode1 ~]$ crsctl query crs softwareversion

Oracle Clusterware version on node [kens-racnode1] is [11.2.0.3.0]

[grid@kens-racnode1 ~]$ crsctl query crs softwareversion kens-racnode2

Oracle Clusterware version on node [kens-racnode2] is [11.2.0.3.0]

7. Now you can see that all the listeners will be runnign from new GI home.

Upgrading Database

This is a 2 step process

a) Installation of rdbms binaries

b) Upgrade database

a) Install binaries

1. Extract the downloaded database software and start runInstaller

2. Check the installation screens

3.Before starting the upgrade Run the pre upgrade script from new $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin and check for any modifications to be done

utlu112i.sql      11.2

utlu111i.sql      11.1

utlu102i.sql     10.2

utlu101i.sql     10.1

4.Now start DBUA from the newly installed oracle home to upgrade the existing database. Using DBUA will upgrade the timezone version also

This completes the GI and RDBMS upgrade