Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure
If you are using Fleet Patching and Provisioning, then you can use a single command to upgrade an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home.
Fleet Patching and Provisioning supports upgrades to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c from 11g release 2 (11.2.0.4), 12c release 1 (12.1.0.2), 12c release 2 (12.2), and 18c. The destination for the upgrade can be a working copy of a gold image already provisioned or you can choose to create the working copy as part of this operation.
As an example, assume that a target cluster is running Oracle Grid Infrastructure on an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home that was provisioned by Fleet Patching and Provisioning. This Oracle Grid Infrastructure home is 12c release 2 (12.2.0.1) and the working copy is named accordingly.
After provisioning a working copy version of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c (named GIOH12201 in this example), you can upgrade to that working copy with this single command:
$ rhpctl upgrade gihome -sourcewc GIOH12201 -destwc GIOH19C
Note:
You can delete the source working copy at any time after completing an upgrade. Once you delete the working copy, however, you cannot perform a rollback. Also, use therhpctl delete workingcopy
command (as opposed to rm
, for example) to remove the source working copy to keep the Fleet Patching and Provisioning inventory correct.
Parent topic: Patching and Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure