Upgrading ASM instance from Oracle 10.1 to Oracle 10.2. (Single Instance)

 

 

Upgrading  ASM instance from Oracle 10.1 to Oracle 10.2. (Single Instance)

Solution

 o Upgrading  of ASM instance  from 10.1 to 10.2 can be accomplished through DBUA.

 o  All the database that use the ASM instance  being upgraded must be shutdown.

The following  steps can be used to upgrade an ASM instance.

1) Install 10.2 as seperate ORACLE_HOME.

2) Now start DBUA (Database Upgrade Assistant ) from 10.2 HOME/bin

3) DBUA is having two options

       a) upgrade ASM instance

       b) upgrade database

4) Select "upgrade ASM" to upgrade the ASM instance.  

5) Oracle cluster Synchronisation Services( CSS ) needs to be upgraded before

upgrading  ASM instance or Database instance.When prompted by DBUA please run

the script  /ORACLE_HOME/bin/localconfig reset to upgrade CSS.

6).Once step 5.  is done DBUA will show you a summary screen of operation it going

to perform and once you confirm the same ASM instance will be upgraded.