April 2022 archive

Apr 28

[FATAL] [INS-10111] Installer encountered errors while copying to nodes

Those days, I tried to deploy a new Oracle Database 19c (19.15) in an Oracle Linux 7.9. This was a Real Application Clusters (RAC) Database Home, the GI was on version 19.14, and the problem was weird: [oracle@au1 dbhome_2]$ ./runInstaller -applyRU /u01/app/oracle/product/19/33515361 -responseFile /tmp/db_2022-04-28_07-28-17PM.rsp -silent -ignorePrereqFailure Preparing the home to patch... Applying the patch /u01/app/oracle/product/19/33515361... …

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Apr 28

How to convert non-RAC Oracle Home to RAC Oracle Home

Multiple times in the past, I've been in a situation where for some reason, I had to convert an Oracle Database Home to be compatible with RAC. A recent one was after the installer encountered errors while copying db home to nodes. So I end up installing manually, node by node, and later converting. As …

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Apr 27

Using REST API with Oracle AutoUpgrade utility

Oracle AutoUpgrade utility, since version 22, is compatible with RESTful API. This brings all the advantages of using that interface that I won't mention here, but the most important is that is no longer needed to SSH or create a shellscript to perform a database upgrade. Now all can be done simply by reaching the …

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