11 Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade consists of upgrade of Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM).

Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrades can be rolling upgrades, in which a subset of nodes are brought down and upgraded while other nodes remain active. Starting with Oracle ASM 11g Release 2 (11.2), Oracle ASM upgrades can be rolling upgrades.

You can also use Rapid Home Provisioning to upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster.