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 12c release 2 (12.2), upgrades can be rolling upgrades.

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

• Understanding Out-of-Place Upgrade
  Review this information about out-of-place upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
• About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrade and Downgrade
  Review this information about upgrade and downgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
• Options for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrades
  Understand the upgrade options for Oracle Grid Infrastructure in this release. When you upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2 (12.2), you upgrade to an Oracle Flex Cluster configuration.
• Restrictions for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrades
  Review the following information for restrictions and changes for upgrades to Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations, which consists of Oracle Clusterware 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
  Review this information to understand rolling upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
• Performing Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  Review this information to perform rolling upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
• About Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure Using Rapid Home Provisioning
  Rapid Home Provisioning is a software lifecycle management method for provisioning and patching Oracle homes.
• Applying Patches to Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  After you have upgraded Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2 (12.2), you can install individual software patches by downloading them from My Oracle Support.
• Updating Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Target Parameters
  After upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure, upgrade the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control target.
• Unlocking the Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
  After upgrade from previous releases, if you want to deinstall the previous release Oracle Grid Infrastructure Grid 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 After an Upgrade
  After a successful or a failed upgrade, you can restore 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 the rootupgrade.sh script was run on all nodes, then the upgrade remains incomplete.
• Converting to Oracle Extended Cluster After Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  Review this information to convert to an Oracle Extended Cluster after upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure. Oracle Extended Cluster enables you to deploy Oracle RAC databases on a cluster, in which some of the nodes are located in different sites.