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asimkhurshid Feb25,20113:34AM

crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemto
ASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.
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Hello,

IneedtomigrateanexistingOracle11.1DatabaseonSolarisplatform(Endian_Fornat=BIG)withfilesystemstorage.Thedatabasesizeis
3TB.
Thetargetdatabaseis11.2onOEL(Endian_Fornat=Small)withASM.
Thisisasingleinstancedatabase.Sincedifferenceofendianness,Ican'tusetransportabledatabase.Currentbackupstrategydoesnotinvolve
RMANatallforthesourcedatabase.Whatwouldbethetestwaytoachievethisresult.RMANmightbeeasyasIcankeepupdatingthetarget
databasewithincrementalbackupsuntiltheorganizationisreadyfortheswitchover.IfIcanbeforwardedtoadocumentaswell,thatwouldbe
great.
Muchappreciated.

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VenkatB Jan14,20119:41AM (inresponsetoasimkhurshid)

1.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

Hi
WelcometoOraclecommunity.YoumaylookatusingRMANconverttablespacefeaturetomakeuseofTransportabletablespaceandmigrateacross
otherplatformsRMANconverttablespacecanconvertdatafilesfromoneEndiantoanotherEndianformat.

Forexample,toconvertfromSolaristoLinux,youwilldo:

VENKATB>r
1SELECTPLATFORM_ID,PLATFORM_NAME,ENDIAN_FORMAT
2FROMV$TRANSPORTABLE_PLATFORM
3WHEREUPPER(PLATFORM_NAME)LIKE'%LINUX%'
4*

PLATFORM_IDPLATFORM_NAMEENDIAN_FORMAT

10LinuxIA(32bit)Little
11LinuxIA(64bit)Little
9IBMzSeriesBasedLinuxBig
13Linuxx8664bitLittle
18IBMPowerBasedLinuxBig

RMAN>converttablespaceAPPLICATION_DATAtoplatform'LinuxIA(32bit)'FORMAT='/tmp/NEW_ENDIAN/%U'

Thendotheexpdpasusualwhenyounormallydothetransportabletablespacemigration.

Readthisdocument:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/backup.111/b28273/rcmsynta012.htm
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Inparticular,lookatthefollowingdetailsintheabovedoclink

Example255TransportingaDatabasetoaDifferentPlatformandStorageType

WhatIwilldoit,firstupgrade11.1to11.2ontheSolarisenvironmentandthendothemigration.MovingfromfilesystemtoASMisnotreallyabig
dealasyouknow.Soupgrade11.1to11.2andthenmovethefilesystemstoASM.Giveitfewdays.Andthenmigrateplatform(orviceversabutone
atatime)

Howeverasyouarealreadyaware,bothupgradeandmigrationneedtobethroughlytestedinatestenvironmentbeforeyouattemptonproduction.

(IhavetosaythatIhaveneverhadtodoitinmyexperienceusingRMAN.IhavedoneitwithsmallerdatabasesinwhichcaseIhadused
export/importabout8yearsback)

Regards

Edit:PleasecheckthisMOSdocumentaswell

MigrationofOracleDatabaseInstancesAcrossOSPlatforms[ID733205.1]

Also,asafinalword,Iwouldwaitforsomesuggestions/advicefromexpertsinthisforum(orelsewhere)whohavereallygonethroughthistypeof
situation.It'sbettertogetsuggestionsfromrealtimeexperiencebecauseitisnotjustplatformmigrationordatabaseupgradeorstoragemigrationBUT
allofthem.Bestofluckwiththeproject.Finally,itwillbegoodandusefultothewholeOraclecommunityifyoucanprepareadocumentafteryou
havecompletedthemigrationandpublishitherewhenyougetachance

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asimkhurshid Jan14,20117:27AM (inresponsetoVenkatB)

2.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

HiVenkat,

IsurelywillprepareadoucmenttracingallthestepsIwillfollow.Thanksforyourinput.AndIwouldwelcomeanyothersuggestionsfromother
membersofthiscommunity.
Thanks.
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user767750 Jan14,20111:41PM (inresponsetoasimkhurshid)

3.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

Iwouldsuggestyouthefollowingsteps.
1)Createandatabasewithnormalfilesystemon11.2onOEL.

2)Thefollowinglinkexplainsthatthetransportabletablespacecanbedonefromlowerversiontoahigherversionwithoutinvolvingtheupgradesteps.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e17120/tspaces013.htm#ADMIN11397

Whenyoucreateatransportabletablespaceset,OracleDatabasecomputesthelowestcompatibilitylevelatwhichthedestinationdatabasemustrun.
Thisisreferredtoasthecompatibilitylevelofthetransportableset.BeginningwithOracleDatabase11g,atablespacecanalwaysbe
transportedtoadatabasewiththesameorhighercompatibilitysetting,whetherthedestinationdatabaseisonthesameoradifferent
platform.Thedatabasesignalsanerrorifthecompatibilitylevelofthetransportablesetishigherthanthecompatibilitylevelofthedestination
database.

3)Thenextthingistransportallthetablespaces(excludingsystem,sysauxandundo)from11.1andplugthemto11.2.database.Thestepsforthe
transportoperationareinthefollowinglink.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e17120/tspaces013.htm

NOTE
====
Intheeventoftheseoperations,pleasenotethefreshlycreateddatabaseandthenewlytransporteddatafilesareallonthelocalfilesystem.

4)Nowoncetheentireoperationiscompleted,letusmovethedatafilestoasm.Thestepsareasfollows:

++Shutdownthedatabase
++Startupmountthedatabase.
++CopythedatafilestotheASMdiskgroup.

Example
=======
%rmantarget/

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RMAN>backupascopydb_file_name_convert=('d:\database\datafile','+data')database

++Oncethisisdone,switchdatbaasetocopy.

RMAN>switchdatabasetocopy

Thiscommandensuresthatthedatafileswillnowberenamedtothecopiesthatweretakeninthepreviousstep.

++Openthedatabase.

SQL>alterdatabaseopen
SQL>selectnamefromv$datafile==>thisshouldshowthenamesofthedatafilesfromASM

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MarkDPowell Jan16,20113:47AM (inresponsetouser767750)

4.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

HavingtofirststagethedatainOSfilesthenmoveittoASMcouldtakealotofspaceandrequiremutliplewindows.Analternateapproachmightbe
toreviewhowthe3Tofdataisdistributedandconsiderifyoucanuseaseriesofparallelexport/importtaskstomovethedatadirectlyintoASM
supportedtablespaces.


Historicdatacouldbemovedinadvanceofawindowthenaseriesofconcurrentexport/importprocessescouldbringthecurrentdata.Theabilityto
dothingsthiswaydependsonthenatureofyoursourceapplicationdatabutitisanotheroptiondependingonyouroveralllevelofresources,window
opportunities,etc....

HTHMarkDPowell

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asimkhurshid Jan17,20111:41AM (inresponsetoMarkDPowell)

5.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

Appreciatealltheresponses.

TheideaofmigratingfirstonafilesystemandthenconvertingtoASMclickedmeaswell,butlikeallothercompanies,wedon'thavetheextraspace
tostagethedatabasefiles.
Evenupgradingtheexisting11.1databaseto11.2issomethingI'mtryingtoavoid,primarilybecauseIdon'tseemuchbenefitfromit.
Isitpossiblethat
1)Icreatethe11.2databaseonOELwithASM
2)Followtransportabletablespaceanddatapumpstepstomigratethedatabase.
Iwillgetawindowofabout40hoursandcanusePARALLELimport/exportwithdatapump.
WilltherebeanyissuewithmovingfromfilesystemdirectlytoASMonacompletelydifferentserver,withdifferentendianformat?
Afewweeksback,Ihaveexported(EXP)afewschemasfromSolaris(Source)databaseandimported(IMP)directlyintoOEL(Target)database.I
hadprecreatedthetablespacesandschemasanddidn'tfaceanyissue.
Butthen,Ihavetoworryaboutalotofpartitionedtables,indexes,constraintsetcforthewhole3TBmigration.WithRMAN,Iwillbeneedingtheextra
stagingareaaswell.
Onceagainthanksforalltheinput.Pleasekeepthemcoming.

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asimkhurshid Jan17,20118:00AM (inresponsetoasimkhurshid)

6.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

Anotherissueiskeepingthenewsetupuptodate.IwaswonderingthatbyusingRMAN,Icantakeincrementalbackupsfromthesourcedatabaseand
keepthetargetuptodate,tillthetimethecompanyisreadytodothefinalswitchover,afteralltheapplicationtestingthatneedstobedone.

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arvindoracle Jan17,201112:46PM (inresponsetoasimkhurshid)

7.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

WecannotusermanincrementalbackupneitherDGissupportedbetweenthiskindofmixedconfiguration.

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MarkDPowell Jan18,20112:11AM (inresponsetoasimkhurshid)

8.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

PropertestingwouldincludeDMLwhichwouldmakethedataoutofsyncwithproduction.Updatingfromproductionwouldrequireareloadofthe
productiondatacompletelyreplacingthetestdata.


Alltestingshouldstopwhenyougettothepointthatyouaregoingtobringtherealproductiondata.ThewayIseeitthereshouldbenoneedtokeep
thedatainsyncbecauseyouareatsomedesignatedpointintimemigratethedatafromthecurrentproductionmachinetothenewone.Thenyouare
runningonthenewserver.

Yes,someofthedatamightbemovedseveraldaysinadvanceofthecutoverifyouuseexport/importbutthisshouldbehistoricdatanotsubjectto
updatetobeginwith,oldpartitions,etc....IfyouneedtomovecurrentdatathenperhapsyoucansetupanduseOracleReplicationtosendthe
updatestothenewserver.

TheDataGuardproductcanalsobeusedtomigratedata.BuildalogicalDG,updateitvialogshipping,switchover,andjusteliminatetheorigional
system.Butlicensingmaybeanissue.

Useofrmanduplicateorexport/importavoidsthelicenseissues.Itjustrequiresplanningandanalysisoftheobjectsbasedonwindowsand
resources.Admittidly,notatrivialtask.

HTHMarkDPowell

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AkashOracle Jan21,20117:33PM (inresponsetoasimkhurshid)

9.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

Hi
YoucanintegrateRMANandexpandperformthemigration.

Referto:http://blogs.oracle.com/AlejandroVargas/2007/04/rman_transportable_tablespace.html

Regards,
Akash

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asimkhurshid Feb25,20113:34AM (inresponsetoAkashOracle)

10.Re:crossplatformmigrationwithdifferentendiannessfromfilesystemtoASMSolaristoLinux11.1to11.2Whatisthebestwaytoachieve
this.

Hello,Justanupdate.Imoveda3TBdatabaseoverusingcrossplatformtransportabletablespacesfromVCFStoASM.Sourceserverwassolaris
andtargetwasLinux.AndsinceIwasnotallowedtotouchthecloneofthedatafilesmountedontarget,Ihadtoconvertthedatafilesontargetusing
RMANCONVERTcommand.
Recently,Ihadtomoveabout10tablespacesusingthesamemethodonadifferentserverandtheIMPDPjobfortablespacemetadatafailedin
between.Onetablespacegotdatafilesassociatedtoitbutnoobjectsgotcreated.
WHataremyoptionsnow?DoIhavetodropthattablespaceanddoIMPDPagain?OrIcanjuststarttheIMPDwithsomespecificparameterthatwill
ignoreanyobjectsalreadycreatedunderothertablespacesandjustcreatedobjectsforthisparticulartablespacethatfailed.Thetablespaceset
containedallthetablespacesinoneset.
Thanksinadvance.

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