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  • 1.  DLP: Oracle upgrade from 11g to 12c - best practices and considerations

    Posted Sep 25, 2018 11:28 PM

    Hi All,

     

    I've been looking on this KB, is there any other factor or consideration we should check?

     

    https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH247450.html

     

    What happen if customer doesn't realize that their Oracle CPU has more than 2 sockets - the upgrade will straight away fail?

     

     

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: DLP: Oracle upgrade from 11g to 12c - best practices and considerations
    Best Answer

    Posted Sep 26, 2018 03:42 AM

    Ideally they would know how many sockets they have in their server. It should be part of the information gathering process, and if they aren't licensed they need to update accordingly before running the upgrade, or make the change to the server running Oracle.

    Other than that, always grab backups of the DB and any application-related information in order to allow for a rollback in case something goes wrong with the update.

    Thanks!

     



  • 3.  RE: DLP: Oracle upgrade from 11g to 12c - best practices and considerations

    Posted Sep 26, 2018 02:34 PM

    Thanks Craig for chipping in

     

    As for the upgrade process/steps, it seems like hard work

     

    We need to re-create Oracle listener....reconnect the db...etc

    Is this normal for any Oracle-connected environment or just for Symantec?



  • 4.  RE: DLP: Oracle upgrade from 11g to 12c - best practices and considerations

    Posted Sep 26, 2018 03:41 PM

    While I can't comment too much on Oracle upgrades, it might be due to the Oracle upgrade itself, and that's worth checking out on the Oracle support forums.