Migration of an EM Repository cross-platform?

Can you migrate your EM Cloud Control Repository to another OS platform? Cross-platform and cross-Endianness?

This question sounds so incredibly simple that you won’t even start thinking I guess. Same for ourselves. Use Data Pump. Or Transportable Tablespaces. Or Full Transportable Export/Import if your source is at least 11.2.0.3 or newer.

But sometimes in life things seem to be simple, but as soon as you unmask them you’ll find a full bunch of issues. It’s a fact that the repository of EM Cloud Control is quite a bit complicated. And uses plenty of databases technologies.

Actually all credits go to Roy here as he has worked with the EM group for the past 6 months on this topic.

You can migrate a EM Cloud Control Repository cross-platform but not cross-Endianness (e.g. HP-UX to OL, big to little Endianness). The latter is scheduled to be supported in EM 13.2.

Please see this link for EM 13.5 which relates to Oracle Database 19c:

Summary:

As EM Cloud Control Repository migrations is possible right now only within the same Endianness group you should decide carefully where you store your EM Cloud Control Repository.

–Mike

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