ODA X5-2 ebusiness Clone

[etika]

Hello Erman,

I have a customer who has an ODA X5-2, virtualized with Oracle e-Business Suite R12 running in a VM, database is 12.1 with RAC.

They have been struggling to clone the production database to another RAC database with another VM hosting the e-Business Suite app.
 
My question is simple : have you, in your experience, seen such a cloning procedure work? RAC to RAC with e business suite is documented and it works, but the problem comes from the "oakcli ecosystem" and the total lack of communication/awareness of oakcli and adpreclone. They've been trying for quite some months now and are getting nowhere with a RAC to RAC e business suite clone on ODA.

My idea would be to :

1- create new Oracle Home with oakcli (to avoid having an Oracle created by ebusiness floating around the ODA)
2- create new RAC database with oakcli and stop it
3- start ebusiness suite cloning procedure

That way, the new dbhome and database are alreay recognised by oakcli


Thanks, Matthieu

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

Actually,

you can just create an Oracle home using oakcli.
Install "database examples"  on it .
Then using rman duplicate(from backup), you can duplicate your database. (from your source home to target home)
You can configure your RAC for your target database after duplicating it. (it is not a very big deal)
After duplicating it, you run autoconfig on db tiers and then continue with the post clone on apps tiers..

Just be sure to put your db tier on ODA_BASE.
Apps tiers may be on Guest VMs but the db layer should be on ODA_BASE privileged domain.

[etika]

Hello,

ok, so take the db copy out of the process, do it manually with RMAN RAC to single, and then start the apps tier... ok!

thanks for the help!

matthieu