Cloning 11i environment using Rapid Clone method

March 3, 2003 Sandra Vucinic VLAD Group, Inc. sandrav@vladgroup.com

Agenda
   

Available cloning methods Differences between cloning methods Cloning using Rapid Clone method Cloning options available for each method Cloning methods best for your environment

How can I clone an Oracle Applications 11i System?

 

What is cloning? Available methods:

  

Cloning using AD clone utility (adclone.pl) Cloning using AutoConfig on Windows Cloning using Rapid Clone (only available on Unix platforms)

What are differences between available cloning methods?



Cloning using adclone.pl method



Applicable for all 11i releases up to 11.5.5 that are not AutoConfig enabled Applicable for all AutoConfig-enabled 11i systems on the Windows platform Releases 11.5.7 and 11.5.8 are AutoConfig enabled out of the box Applicable for all 11i systems that have migrated to AutoConfig and enabled Rapid Clone

Cloning using AutoConfig

 

Cloning using Rapid Clone



What are differences between available cloning methods?



adclone.pl method requires that you run Rapid Install and apply RDBMS and Technology Stack patches to target system AutoConfig requires that you run 11.5.7 Rapid Install to build installer inventory if you plan to patch target RDBMS home Rapid Clone does not require that you run Rapid Install nor build OUI inventory files

Cloning Oracle Applications using Rapid Clone method

   

Target system the newly created system Source system the system to be cloned Not yet supported on Windows platform Could clone OS binary compatible systems (HP UX 11 and HP UX 11i; Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8) Pre-release 11.5.8 systems can be configured to use Rapid Clone If you have more than 4 mount points for the datafies, apply patch 2741120

Cloning Oracle Applications using Rapid Clone method



Standard Rapid Clone Method (singlenode to single-node)

    

Prepare the source system for Rapid Clone Stage the source system Copy the source system Configure the target system Perform post-cloning tasks

Prepare the Source System for Rapid Clone

 

Migrate to AutoConfig (Note: 165195.1) Apply prerequisite patches:

 

Apply the Context Creation and Editor patch 2716534 Apply patch 2614231 (OUI 2.1.0.17.0 used to register RDBMS and iAS homes) Apply AutoConfig consolidated update patch 2716712

 

Upgrade to JDK 1.3.1 Generate applications context file (<SID>.xml) using Context Creation Wizard

Prepare the Source System for Rapid Clone



Update applications context file



Run AutoConfig to generate configuration files for the source system) Run MakeAppsUtil to generate appsutil.zip files that contain Rapid Clone files Update the Rapid Clone files on RDBMS home with the new files included in AutoConfig Consolidated Update patch

Create the RDBMS home Rapid Clone files



Copy the Rapid Clone files to RDBMS home



Modify user configuration (for Unix users 11.5.1)

Stage the Source System

 

Create the stage location (20 MB) Stage the source system RDBMS home


Ran adclone.sh script with mode=stage and component = dbTechStack Ran adclone.sh script with mode=stage and component = database Ran adclone.sh script with mode=stage and component = atTechStack Ran adclone.sh script with mode=stage and component = appltop

Stage the source system database



Stage the Applications technology stack



Stage the APPL_TOP



Note: The source system doesn t need to be shut down for the stage phase

Copy the Source System

     

 

Create users for the target system Create the stage location Shutdown source system services Copy the source system clone stage directories Copy the source system APPL_TOP files Copy the source system COMMON_TOP files (java, html and util directories) Copy the source system Applications technology stack (8.0.6 home and iAS home) Copy the source system RDBMS home Copy the source system database

Configure the Target System

 

Create the target system Applications Context file (use Context Creation Wizard) Configure the target system RDBMS home


Ran adclone.sh script with mode=apply and component = dbTechStack

 

Configure the target system database Start the target system database and Net8 listener Configure the target system Applications technology stack Configure the target system APPL_TOP

Perform post-cloning tasks

  

   

Sign the Java archive files (force=y) Relink the f60webmx executable on HP Relink Applications executables programs (recommended) Update Notifications Mailer configuration files Reconfigure Portal (Note 146469.1) Start Applications processes Test the target system
 

Check client tier connectivity Verify that you can start and use target system

Perform post-cloning tasks



Other post-cloning considerations:

  

 

Update GSM profile options Update other profile options (non-site level options) Update patch history database (see Migrating Patch History Info in AD Procedures guide) Update tables with target system environment information Additional product specific steps (for payroll) Remove source system related files and directories from the target system

Other cloning options

 

Recloning Cloning a multi-node system to a multi-node system

 

Required that number of nodes and server components installed on each node are the same Clone database node first

Cloning a single-node system to a multi-node system - available Cloning a multi-node system to a single-node system not yet available

Which cloning method is best for your environment?



The best method depends on:



Version of applications:  Prior to version 11.5.7  Version 11.5.7  Version 11.5.8 Platform:  Unix (adclone.pl and Rapid Clone)  Windows (adclone.pl and AutoConfig) Version of Database:  8i  9i

What cloning options are available for each method?

Single-node to Singlenode Cloning 11i apps using adclone.pl Cloning 11i apps using AutoConfig Supported Multi-node to Multinode Supported Single-node Multi-node to to MultiSingle-node node Not Available Not Available

Supported

Supported

Not Available Supported

Not Available

Cloning 11i Supported apps using Rapid Clone

Supported

Not Available

What cloning options are available for each method?



Cloning Oracle 9i database



Available methods:
 

AutoConfig Rapid Clone

Cloning multi-node system to a single-node system is currently not available Cloning single-node system to multi-node system is only supported for Rapid Clone method

Thank You
Sandra Vucinic sandrav@vladgroup.com (630) 202-1248