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Exadata Cloud at Customer : Grid Infrastructure patch under the hood

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Following up with this blog post, here is a quick overview of what is performed on Exadata Cloud at Customer nodes when a Grid Infrastructure patching is launched via the web interface, the Oracle Cloud control plane.

The whole patch process is not that different from the precheck process. Most of the steps are similar, and of course, the main difference is that the Opatch command actually … patches the Grid Infrastructure 😉

Let’s launch the patching process with a simple click on the Oracle Cloud control plane (sorry for the Fren-Glish screenshots …) :

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Exadata Cloud at Customer : Grid Infrastructure patch precheck under the hood

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I am now exploring the brand new Grid Infrastructure patching method for Exadata Cloud at Customer. With Exadata Cloud at Customer version 18.1.4.4, it is now possible to patch Grid Infrastructure with a few clicks in the GUI. Let’s see exactly which steps are performed.

First, with my preferred method (CLI 🙂 ), I run opatch against Grid Infrastructure home to check the current patch level :

28656071;OCW RELEASE UPDATE 18.4.0.0.0 (28656071)
28655963;DBWLM RELEASE UPDATE 18.4.0.0.0 (28655963)
28655916;ACFS RELEASE UPDATE 18.4.0.0.0 (28655916)
28655784;Database Release Update : 18.4.0.0.181016 (28655784)
28547619;TOMCAT RELEASE UPDATE 18.0.0.0.0 (28547619)

Since the GUI now shows when a new patch is available for Grid Infrastructure, there is a new Exadata Grid section with a precheck option in its burger menu :

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