Rolling Upgrade From Oracle 10g Release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 to Oracle 11g Release 1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6

This paper focuses on a rolling upgrade of operating system and database with reduced database downtime. The procedure and steps in this white paper will help customers upgrade their Dell|Oracle tested and validated configurations. Oracle has recently released its Oracle Database 11g, the next generation of grid computing. This release brings a significant advancement in grid computing, introducing robust new features that further improve database availability and manageability; performance monitoring and diagnostics; and the database upgrade procedure. Key features such as Oracle Real Application Testing, Physical Standby with Real-Time Query, new partitioning schemes, and Result Cache are examples of the many innovations in this release.