How To Migrate Multitenant Standalone Database Using Fleet Maintenance (Doc ID 2725136.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 02, 2020

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager for Oracle Database - Version 12.1.0.8.0 to 13.4.1.0.0 [Release 12.1 to 13.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

Fleet Maintenance is a centralized mechanism for Patching/Upgrading of Oracle homes and maintain consistency. Fleet Maintenance allows Enterprise Manager (EM) Cloud Control administrators to patch database, Oracle Restart or Grid Infrastructure with minimal downtime. Fleet maintenance uses the Out of Place Patching option. Also this can be done only via emcli verb and there is no GUI option available.

Scope

Steps outlined in this document are applicable for migrating multitenant standalone DB. Scenarios applicable are

Migration of existing PDB's to the newly created CDB.
Migration of PDB's from an existing CDB to the same patch level destination CDB.

Note:

Please follow the below document if you want to patch/Upgrade multitenant database using fleet maintenance. How To Patch Or Upgrade Standalone Database Using Fleet Maintenance <Note 2434260.1>
Above document helps in migrating entire CDB along with PDB's to new Oracle Home after Patching/Upgrade.
This document helps in migrating some or all of PDB's to another CDB of the same patch level.