out of place patching GI on Exadata OVM
Hello this long overdue blogpost to explain you how do the patching on our OVM Exadata System, I had a look at this with Ludovico Caldara a while back, thank you Ludo for your time ! We start with download the golden image from MOS, you can find the patch numbers in the oeda readme. patch 30640393 Check the ownership in /u01/app/oraInventory/logs of GridSetupActions* files grid should be able to write to them Phase Description Downtime Can be done upfront to save Time 1 add the home to the vm NO YES 2 gridSetup preconfiguration NO YES 3 gridSetup -switchHome YES (ROLLING) NO 1 Step1:Add the home to the VM This means that we add the GI home to the vm I will not cover that here as it is covered in the documentation 2 Step2 : gridSetuppreconfiguration What I do is start the installer in GUI mode fill everything in and use that then as a template. For each host a correct responseFile needs to be in place. it is important that the correct groups are set in that response file These must