I hope this question can be posted here, if not I do apologize.
I have inherited a Production system running at a client site. It is a
RAC system 2 cluster node presently running on an HP EVA 8000 with
* Oracle 10.2.0.3
* Redhat 4.5 Kernel 2.6.9-55(updates to 4.8 kernel remains at 2.6.9-55)
* OCFS2
o OCFS2-tools-1.2.7-1.e14.i386
o OCFS2console-1.2.7-e14.i386
o OCFS2-2.6.9-55.ELsmp-1.2.8-2.e14.i386
* ASM
o oracelasm-support-2.0.3-1.i386
o oracleasm-2.6.9-55.ELsmp-2.0.3-1.i386
o oracleasmlib-2.0.2-1.i386
There was a kernel crash on the weekend and I suspect a request will be
to update the kernel. There has been talks around upgrading Oracle to
10.2.0.4 for some time but the client has not been willing to move on
it. I am looking for some professional insight on what can be upgraded
vs what should be upgraded, just doing the OCFS2 and ASM vs both these
as well as the RDBMS. Also the HBA drivers would need to be upgraded.
Any info or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Any additional info needed please do not hesitate to ask.
Thanks
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As far as ocfs2 is concerned, the current version of ocfs2 1.2 is ocfs2 1.2.9. You will find the packages for your kernel on oss.oracle.com. The news section has the list of changes/bugs fixed. asmlib also has some updates. You can review the fixes to see whether an upgrade is warranted. For all other qs, ping Oracle support and/or Red Hat support. Sunil On 06/16/2010 08:02 AM, Martin Eddy wrote:> I hope this question can be posted here, if not I do apologize. > > I have inherited a Production system running at a client site. It is a > RAC system 2 cluster node presently running on an HP EVA 8000 with > > * Oracle 10.2.0.3 > * Redhat 4.5 Kernel 2.6.9-55(updates to 4.8 kernel remains at > 2.6.9-55) > * OCFS2 > o OCFS2-tools-1.2.7-1.e14.i386 > o OCFS2console-1.2.7-e14.i386 > o OCFS2-2.6.9-55.ELsmp-1.2.8-2.e14.i386 > * ASM > o oracelasm-support-2.0.3-1.i386 > o oracleasm-2.6.9-55.ELsmp-2.0.3-1.i386 > o oracleasmlib-2.0.2-1.i386 > > > There was a kernel crash on the weekend and I suspect a request will > be to update the kernel. There has been talks around upgrading Oracle > to 10.2.0.4 for some time but the client has not been willing to move > on it. I am looking for some professional insight on what can be > upgraded vs what should be upgraded, just doing the OCFS2 and ASM vs > both these as well as the RDBMS. Also the HBA drivers would need to be > upgraded. Any info or opinions would be greatly appreciated. > Any additional info needed please do not hesitate to ask. > > > Thanks > ******-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-users/attachments/20100616/fa87cfe9/attachment.html
We have been running the -55 kernel for a long time on our Oracle servers, there
is one issue for us known, which is a memory leak in the kernel in conjunction
with HP management agents, but otherwise -55 has been ok for us. But there have
been plenty of fixes in newer kernels, but also traps. When we did try to
upgrade we ran into kernel panics which got triggered by network drivers and we
rolled back.
From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at
oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:15 AM
To: Martin Eddy
Cc: Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Info on Version Upgrade
As far as ocfs2 is concerned, the current version of ocfs2 1.2
is ocfs2 1.2.9. You will find the packages for your kernel on
oss.oracle.com. The news section has the list of changes/bugs fixed.
asmlib also has some updates. You can review the fixes to see
whether an upgrade is warranted.
For all other qs, ping Oracle support and/or Red Hat support.
Sunil
On 06/16/2010 08:02 AM, Martin Eddy wrote:
I hope this question can be posted here, if not I do apologize.
I have inherited a Production system running at a client site. It is a RAC
system 2 cluster node presently running on an HP EVA 8000 with
* Oracle 10.2.0.3
* Redhat 4.5 Kernel 2.6.9-55(updates to 4.8 kernel remains at 2.6.9-55)
* OCFS2
* OCFS2-tools-1.2.7-1.e14.i386
* OCFS2console-1.2.7-e14.i386
* OCFS2-2.6.9-55.ELsmp-1.2.8-2.e14.i386
* ASM
* oracelasm-support-2.0.3-1.i386
* oracleasm-2.6.9-55.ELsmp-2.0.3-1.i386
* oracleasmlib-2.0.2-1.i386
There was a kernel crash on the weekend and I suspect a request will be to
update the kernel. There has been talks around upgrading Oracle to 10.2.0.4 for
some time but the client has not been willing to move on it. I am looking for
some professional insight on what can be upgraded vs what should be upgraded,
just doing the OCFS2 and ASM vs both these as well as the RDBMS. Also the HBA
drivers would need to be upgraded. Any info or opinions would be greatly
appreciated.
Any additional info needed please do not hesitate to ask.
Thanks
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