1.1 Options and Restrictions for Oracle Restart Upgrades
Review these upgrade options and restrictions when you upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server (Oracle Restart) 19c.
Supported upgrade paths for Oracle Restart for this release are:
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Oracle Restart upgrade from 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) to Oracle Restart 19c.
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Oracle Restart upgrade from 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) to Oracle Restart 19c.
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Oracle Restart upgrade from 12c Release 2 (12.2) to Oracle Restart 19c.
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Oracle Restart upgrade from 18c to Oracle Restart 19c.
Restrictions for Oracle Restart Upgrades
- Oracle Restart upgrades are always out-of-place upgrades. You cannot perform an in-place upgrade of Oracle Restart to an existing Grid home.
- The same user that owned the earlier release of the Oracle Restart software must perform the Oracle Restart 19c upgrade.
- Do not delete directories in the Grid home. For example, do not
delete the directory
Grid_home\OPatch
. If you delete the directory, then the Oracle Restart installation owner cannot use the OPatch utility to patch the Grid home, and OPatch displays the error message"'checkdir' error: cannot create Grid_home\OPatch"
. - The software in the 19c Oracle Restart home is not fully functional
until the upgrade is complete. Running
srvctl
,crsctl
, and other commands from the new Grid home are not supported until the the upgrade is complete. - To manage databases in an existing earlier release database home
during the Oracle Restart upgrade, use the
srvctl
utility from the existing database home.
Parent topic: Preparing to Upgrade Oracle Restart