Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure from an Earlier Release -19C

Complete this procedure to upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware
and Oracle Automatic Storage Management) from an earlier release.
At any time during the upgrade, if you have a question about what you are being
asked to do, or what input you are required to provide during upgrade, click the Help
button on the installer page.
You should have your network information, storage information, and operating system
users and groups available to you before you start upgrade, and you should be
prepared to run root scripts.
Chapter 11
Performing Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure

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1. As  grid user, download the Oracle Grid Infrastructure image files and extract the
files to the Grid home.
For example:
mkdir -p /u01/app/19.0.0/grid
chown grid:oinstall /u01/app/19.0.0/grid
cd /u01/app/19.0.0/grid
unzip -q download_location/grid_home.zip

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Note:
• You must extract the image software into the directory where you
want your Grid home to be located.
• Download and copy the Oracle Grid Infrastructure image files to the
local node only. During upgrade, the software is copied and installed
on all other nodes in the cluster.

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2. Start the Oracle Grid Infrastructure wizard by running the following command:
/u01/app/19.0.0/grid/gridSetup.sh

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3. Select the following configuration option:
• Upgrade Oracle Grid Infrastructure: Select this option to upgrade Oracle
Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM).
Note:
Oracle Clusterware must always be the later release, so you cannot
upgrade Oracle ASM to a release that is more recent than Oracle
Clusterware.

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4. On the Node Selection page, select all nodes.

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5. Select installation options as prompted. Oracle recommends that you configure
root script automation, so that the  rootupgrade.sh script can be run automatically
during the upgrade.

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6. Run  root scripts, either automatically or manually:
• Running root scripts automatically:
If you have configured  root script automation, then use the pause between
batches to relocate services from the nodes running the previous release to
the new release.
• Running root scripts manually
If you have not configured  root script automation, then when prompted, run
the  rootupgrade.sh script on each node in the cluster that you want to upgrade.

If you run  root scripts manually, then run the script on the local node first. The
script shuts down the earlier release installation, replaces it with the new Oracle
Clusterware release, and starts the new Oracle Clusterware installation. After the
script completes successfully, you can run the script in parallel on all nodes except
for one, which you select as the last node. When the script is run successfully on
all the nodes except the last node, run the script on the last node.

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7. Because the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home is in a different location than the
former Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM homes, update any scripts or
applications that use utilities, libraries, or other files that reside in the Oracle
Clusterware and Oracle ASM homes.

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8. Update the Oracle Enterprise Manager target parameters as described in the topic
Updating Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Target Parameters.
Note:
• After upgrading to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c, remove the
ADR_BASE=/u01/app/grid entry from $ORACLE_HOME/network/
admin/sqlnet.ora file, if you use Oracle ASM for database storage.
• At the end of the upgrade, if you set the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR)
backup location manually to the earlier release Oracle Clusterware home
(CRS home), then you must change the OCR backup location to the new
Oracle Grid Infrastructure home (Grid home). If you did not set the OCR
backup location manually, then the backup location is changed for you
during the upgrade.
• Because upgrades of Oracle Clusterware are out-of-place upgrades, the
previous release Oracle Clusterware home cannot be the location of the
current release OCR backups. Backups in the old Oracle Clusterware
home can be deleted.
• If the cluster being upgraded has a single disk group that stores the
OCR, OCR backup, Oracle ASM password, Oracle ASM password file
backup, and the Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR),
then Oracle recommends that you create a separate disk group or use
another existing disk group and store the OCR backup, the GIMR and
Oracle ASM password file backup in that disk group.
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