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 and Rolling Upgrades
  You can use rolling upgrade or out-of-place upgrades to upgrade your Oracle Grid Infrastructure software.
• About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrade and Downgrade
  There are different methods you can use to upgrade the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software.
• 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 and Guidelines for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrades
  Review the 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
  Instead of shutting down all nodes when applying patches, you can shut down some nodes while other nodes remaining running.
• Performing Rolling Upgrades of Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  Review this information to perform rolling upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
• 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.
• 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 installation or upgrade (the first node), or the node reboots before you confirm that the gridconfig.bat script was run on all cluster nodes, then the upgrade or installation remains incomplete.