12.2 RDBMS Home Cloning In RAC (Doc ID 2508355.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 29, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

Clone command used in 12.1 successfully.

$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl $ORACLE_HOME/clone/bin/clone.pl –O -silent -force ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/12.1.0/racdb12.1.0.2.181016 ORACLE_BASE="/opt/oracle" CLUSTER_NODES={Nodedb01,Nodedb02} ...

Same command in 12.2 is not working.

$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl $ORACLE_HOME/clone/bin/clone.pl -silent ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/12.2.0/racdb12.2.0.1.190115 ORACLE_BASE="/opt/oracle" CLUSTER_NODES={Nodedb01,Nodedb02} ...
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 215882 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 32767 MB Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2019-02-11_01-05-59PM. Please wait ...[INS-04010] Repetition of command line argument is not supported: CLUSTER_NODES=Nodedb02 .

For Oracle 12.2, the clone.pl script does not allow the CLUSTER_NODES parameter as in previous releases.

[INS-04010] Repetition of the command line argument is not supported: CLUSTER_NODES=Nodedb02

The command works without CLUSTER_NODES parameter but then again the binaries are not RAC enabled

You may see the below errors while creating a database from this home after you run the clone command without CLUSTER_NODES parameter.

[FATAL] [DBT-10601] (Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) database) cannot be created in the current Oracle home.
CAUSE: Oracle home is not RAC enabled.

Changes

 12.2 clone.pl script allows the cluster_nodes to be specified, but more than one node cannot be specified.

Cause

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