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Introduction
Yahoo! is upgrading all the Oracle databases to 11gR2. Upgrade is essential to ensure that our oracle environments continue to be supported in terms o patches and bug i!es b" Oracle# also the dollar cost o being on e!ception list or bac$ porting patches or 1%gR2 is ver" high. Upgrade would allow us to leverage new eatures o 11gR2. &s a corporate goal# all hosts will be re'uired to use ()* +Yahoo! (on ig )anagement ,"stem-. .osts which are being on boarded to ()* will be reimaged with R./01U*.
2he white paper ocuses on reducing the downtime re'uired or R./01U* 7 Oracle 11gR2 upgrade.
2otal 2ime 8 hours ,tep 1 might ta$e more time incase i we run in to issues a ter the host reimage. 4enerall"# issues with bonding# mounting volumes via storage net are encountered post host reimage.
volumes on spare host and complete the 11gR2 database upgrade * hours
(op" the "data#ase speci$ic n$s entries% rom production 9etc9 stab to spare host. + 6o <O2 cop" 9u%1 entries -
(reate the mount points and mount the volumes (on igure init.ora ;ollow the Oracle 11gR2 upgrade steps.
=. 0ater we mount bac$ the database on the original hosts. >er" less time.
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&onclusion
We?ve provided a method o reducing the upgrade downtime b" hal using a spare Oracle R&( (luster. 2he methodolog" is ver" help ul or upgrading mission@critical databases with minimal downtime.