Upgrade Oracle 9i RAC to Oracle 10g RAC

Upgrade Oracle 9i RAC to Oracle 10g RAC
by Vincent Chan
This article provides the procedures for converting Oracle 9i (9.2.0.4) RAC to Oracle 10g (10.2.0.1) RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (RHEL3).
Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) 10g itself, boast many new and exciting features that simplify database manageability and provide higher availability and scalability. Compared to its predecessors, Oracle 10g RAC is much easier to install, use and manage, thereby reducing the total cost of ownership.
Overview
The RAC cluster comprises two Intel x86 servers running on RHEL3 (Kernel 2.4.21-27). Each node has access to a shared storage and connectivity to the public and private network.
This article is structured into the following steps:
1. Preliminary Installation
2. Install Oracle Clusterware
3. Install Oracle RAC Software
4. Upgrade the Database
5. Migrate Database to ASM (Optional Step)
Unless otherwise specified, you should execute all steps on both nodes.
Here's an overview of our Oracle 9i RAC environment:
Host Name
Instance Name
Database Name
$ORACLE_HOME
Database File Storage
 
 
 
 
 
salmon1
prod1a
prod1
/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0
OCFS
salmon2
prod1b
prod1
/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0
OCFS
File
File Name
File Storage
 
 
 
Quorum
/ocfs/prod1/quorum
OCFS
Shared Configuration
/ocfs/prod1/srvm
OCFS
And an overview of the Oracle 10g RAC environment:
Host Name
Instance Name
Database Name
$ORACLE_HOME
Database File Storage
 
 
 
 
 
salmon1
prod1a
prod1
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
OCFS
salmon2
prod1b
prod1
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
OCFS
File
File Name
File Storage
 
 
 
Voting Disk
/ocfs/prod1/vdisk1
/ocfs/prod1/vdisk2
/ocfs/prod1/vdisk3
OCFS
Oracle Cluster Registry
/ocfs/prod1/ocr1
/ocfs/prod1/ocr2
OCFS
Step 1: Preliminary Installation
1a. Verify s