Migrating an existing Oracle RAC cluster to PowerHA SystemMirror

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You can migrate only an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11gR2 Version 11.2.0.1, or later, cluster to PowerHA® SystemMirror® Version 7.1.0, or later.

About this task

If you are using PowerHA SystemMirror 6.1, or earlier, you must first upgrade to Oracle RAC 11gR2 before you upgrade PowerHA SystemMirror.

To migrate an existing Oracle RAC 11gR2, or later, cluster to be used with PowerHA SystemMirror, complete the following steps:

Procedure

  1. From the command line, enter smit cl_manage_critical_vgs.
  2. From the SMIT interface, select Mark a Volume Group as Critical and press Enter.
  3. From the list of volume groups, select the volume group that contains the Oracle voting disk and press Enter.
  4. Verify and synchronize the cluster.