Our doc team has put a lot of effort together with the help of my team mates and created these 9 Upgrade and Migration Scenarios as part of the official Oracle documentation.
The idea is to cut out the most common use cases and give a quick and comprehensive overview on all necessary steps.
9 Upgrade and Migration Scenarios
These comprehensive 9 scenarios cover non-CDB and PDB/CDB as well as changing to new hardware:
- Migrating and Converting Non-CDBs to a PDB with a Different Endian Operating System
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Show Details - Migrating Non-CDBs to New Hardware with the Same Operating System and for a New Release
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Show Details - Unplugging, Plugging, and Upgrading a PDB to a New CDB
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Show Details - Upgrading and Converting Non-CDBs to a PDB with the Same Operating System
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Show Details - Upgrading Non-CDBs on the Same System
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Show Details - Upgrading PDBs in Parallel on the Same System
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More Scenarios (added June 26, 2020)
- Upgrading Oracle Restart for Linux and Unix-Based Operating Systems
- Upgrading Oracle Restart for Microsoft Windows
Further Information
Of course you will find some of these examples here on the blog as well, such as:
- Upgrade to Oracle 18.3.0 on premises
- Unplug a 12.2.0.1 PDB and Plug into 18c in the Cloud
- Upgrade PDB via unplug/plug/upgrade – One at a time
–Mike
this is crazy. So much detailed information on each topic. Someone has put much hard work making into this.
Thanks for the sharing !
Mike,
If the SYS password in 11g database is only version 10G, it will not get changed to 11G 12C, no matter what. The USER$ table still has the hash for the password. All documented methods of changing the password version do not work for SYS. I have a SR open, but nothing from support so far.
Do you have any insight?
Thanks,
Arun
Do you know how I can download the Oracle pre-built VM for 11g-12c referenced in the “upgrade-hol-12201-3656612.pdf” doc? The version on the Oracle download site if for 18c but I need the 11g-12c. (I was working with it, had a problem, deleted it thinking i could easily re-download it. However I can’t find it anywhere. Thank you!!!
Ethan,
we removed it as the 12.2 lab is not available anymore.
Please drop me an email (firstname.lastname@oracle.com) and I can send it to you.
Cheers,
Mike
Thank you Mike!
Ethan
eaai@hotmail.com
Sent it – let me know if you don’t receive it (and check the SPAM folder in your hotmail account as well).
Cheers,
Mike
I just came across this page while searching for documention on migrating a Oracle 19 CDB/PDB from SPARC Solaris to Intel Linux x86_64. I did find a really nice guide for non-CDBs (https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/spmds/index.html) but wondering if you know if something similar exists for existing CDBs/PDBs.
Hi Joseph,
see here please:
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/install-and-upgrade.html
Thanks
Mike