GIMRDB

Do you need to apply OJVM patches to Grid Infrastructure?

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich ASM / RAC / GI Patch Recommendation 18

From time to time, when I discuss OJVM patching with customers, I hear the following question: Do you need to apply OJVM patches to Grid Infrastructure? I’m carrying around this topic since months actually.

Do you need to apply OJVM patches to Grid Infrastructure?

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A quick MOS check

Well, you’d assume this is something MOS does give you an answer within fractions of a second. But nope. I found a lot but unfortunately not what I was looking for. What I found instead where community discussions where applying OJVM patches to a 12.1.0.2 GI installation corrupted the inventory. Hence, there seems to be some …

GIMR DB in Oracle Database 12.2

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich ASM / RAC / GI 0

I did blog in the past already about the Grid Infrastructure Management Repository Database (GIMR DB):

Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) database now mandatory in Oracle GI 12.1.0.2

SID and DBNAME are kept the same in Oracle Database 12.2. But there are a few changes and additions in Oracle Database 12.2.0.1.

GIMR DB in its own Disk Group

During a fresh installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12.2.0.1 you’ll have the chance to create a disk group for GIMR DB:

GIMR DB – Gets its own disk group in Oracle 12.2

But you can migrate GIMR DB into a separate disk …

Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) – Datapatch?

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich ASM / RAC / GI Patch Recommendation 0

I have blogged about the Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) a while back:

Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) database now mandatory in Oracle GI 12.1.0.2

And Markus Michalewicz, our Director of Product Management, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), has published a very interesting and helpful insight article about GIMR on July 30, 2015. Read it here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-handle-oracle-gimr-markus-michalewicz

Since Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 the GIMR database will be created by default – and it is a single tenant database having a CDB$ROOT and one active PDB.

Recently the question came up if – in the likely event of applying a PSU …

Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) database now mandatory in Oracle GI 12.1.0.2

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich ASM / RAC / GI Oracle Database 12c 30

During the installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12.1.0.1 you’ve had the an option to choose YES/NO to install the Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) database MGMTDB – but as of Oracle 12.1.0.2 Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) database now mandatory in Oracle GI 12.1.0.2:

Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) database now mandatory in Oracle GI 12.1.0.2

GIMR database now mandatory in Oracle GI 12.1.0.2

With Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12.1.0.2 this choice has become obsolete and the above screen does not appear anymore. The GIMR database has become mandatory.

What do we stored in the GIMR?

You’ll find it in the Oracle 12.1.0.2 documentation via this link.

In addition please see the …

GIMRDB

Do you need to apply OJVM patches to Grid Infrastructure?

A quick MOS check

GIMR DB in Oracle Database 12.2

GIMR DB in its own Disk Group

Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) – Datapatch?

Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) database now mandatory in Oracle GI 12.1.0.2

GIMR database now mandatory in Oracle GI 12.1.0.2

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