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From: Jon on 5 Aug 2010 14:30

Hi,

Are the Oracle 11g binaries installed on our v890 (sun4u architecture,
Solaris 10) the same as the Oracle binaries on a T2000 (sun4v
architecture, Solaris 10)?

Background
We want to use our current v890's system disks to create a "duplicate"
environment on a T2000. We use "flar's" for this purpose all the time.
However, this is the first time we've gone from one architecture to
another arch. The standard flar process won't work in this case. But
Sun (Oracle) has a workaround that makes the flar method possible.

If that process works, we would end up with the Oracle binaries from
the v890/sun4u environment on the T2000 -- we just copy over the
Oracle software. We don't re-install Oracle. Again, this has worked
fine and many times when going from sun4u to sun4u.
But I'm thinking the Oracle binaries may not work at all or might have
problems and might need to be re-installed on the T2000 If so, it
would affect our plans.
Or there may be no issue at all. I don't know.

So, are the same Oracle binaries used for both a Solaris 10 on sun4u
arch. and a Solaris 10 on sun4v arch.?

Thanks,
Jon
From: John Hurley on 5 Aug 2010 16:13
On Aug 5, 2:30 pm, Jon <jonelwoodpr...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are the Oracle 11g binaries installed on our v890 (sun4u architecture,
> Solaris 10) the same as the Oracle binaries on a T2000 (sun4v
> architecture, Solaris 10)?
>
> Background
> We want to use our current v890's system disks to create a "duplicate"
> environment on a T2000. We use "flar's" for this purpose all the time.
> However, this is the first time we've gone from one architecture to
> another arch. The standard flar process won't work in this case. But
> Sun (Oracle) has a workaround that makes the flar method possible.
>
> If that process works, we would end up with the Oracle binaries from
> the v890/sun4u environment on the T2000 -- we just copy over the
> Oracle software. We don't re-install Oracle. Again, this has worked
> fine and many times when going from sun4u to sun4u.
> But I'm thinking the Oracle binaries may not work at all or might have
> problems and might need to be re-installed on the T2000 If so, it
> would affect our plans.
> Or there may be no issue at all. I don't know.
>
> So, are the same Oracle binaries used for both a Solaris 10 on sun4u
> arch. and a Solaris 10 on sun4v arch.?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

Well since Oracle now owns sun a place to ask might be the Big Admin
site.

We just have one sun box running Oracle still here ... and it is a low
maintenance app.

I think the sun4u stuff was related to 64 bit and the T2000 is
definitely 64 bit so probably this may work ok.
From: John D Groenveld on 6 Aug 2010 12:06
In article <4305cecd-d7dd-459a-8b59-118c38212dbc(a)s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Jon <jonelwoodprice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>So, are the same Oracle binaries used for both a Solaris 10 on sun4u
>arch. and a Solaris 10 on sun4v arch.?

Yes.

John
groenveld(a)acm.org
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