In this blog post I will show how to identify and fix the root cause of a failed Grid Infrastructure upgrade to 23ai and how to complete the upgrade to get the VM Cluster back to the AVAILABLE state.
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ExaCC: Upgrade Grid Infrastructure to 23ai using OCI CLI
In May 2024 Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle 23ai on ExaCC. In this blog post, I will upgrade an existing VM Cluster to 23ai using the OCI CLI.
Continue readingOracle 21c: Dedicated Grid Infrastructure resource for a PDB
Starting with Oracle 21c, a PDB is registered as dedicated resource in the Grid Infrastructure.
Continue readingCreate Golden Image of your current Grid Infrastructure 12.2 installation
Starting with the release of Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2, Oracle changed the installation process. Instead of unzipping the downloaded zip files to a staging area, you unzip them to your target Oracle Home location. Afterwards you run the configuration script gridSetup.sh. This new installer has a lot of improvements like patching the installer itself or installing patchset updates or bundle patches before the actual configuration of the Grid Infrastructure starts. I want to demonstrate one of these new features – the creation of a Gold Image of an existing Grid Infrastructure installation.
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