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.
- Understanding Out-of-Place Upgrade
With an out-of-place upgrade, the installer installs the newer version in a separate Oracle Clusterware home. - About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrade and Downgrade
You have the ability to upgrade or downgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure to a supported release. - Options for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrades
Review these upgrade options when you upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 23ai. - Restrictions for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrades
Restrictions and changes for upgrades to Oracle Clusterware installations, which consists of Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM). - Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
If you have an existing Oracle Clusterware installation, then you upgrade your existing cluster by performing an out-of-place upgrade. You cannot perform an in-place upgrade. - Understanding Rolling Upgrades Using Batches
You can perform rolling upgrades of Oracle Grid Infrastructure in batches. - Performing Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure
Review this information to perform rolling upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure. - About Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure Using Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning
Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (Oracle FPP) is a software lifecycle management method for provisioning and patching Oracle homes. - Updating Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Target Parameters
After upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure, upgrade the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control target. - Unlocking and Deinstalling the Previous Release Grid Home
After upgrading from previous releases, if you want to deinstall the previous release Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, then you must first change the permission and ownership of the previous release Grid home. - Checking Cluster Health Monitor Repository Size After Upgrading
If you are upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure from a prior release using IPD/OS to the current release, then review the Cluster Health Monitor repository size (the CHM repository). - Downgrading Oracle Clusterware to an Earlier Release
After a successful or a failed upgrade, you can downgrade Oracle Clusterware to the previous release. - Completing Failed or Interrupted Installations and Upgrades
If Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) exits on the node from which you started the upgrade, or the node reboots before you confirm that therootupgrade.sh
script was run on all nodes, then the upgrade remains incomplete.