We did something very close to this in November of last year. We have
the same OS and hardware. We were also character mode however we
differed in that we used GEMMS for process manufacturing rather than
discrete manufacturing in Oracle. We also had some customization. Our
database was a little larger than yours at 98 GB. We were also at
7.3.4.5. We went to 11.5.7 rather than 11.5.8
The most important thing that we did right as I look on it in retrospect
was that we did the full migration 3 times before we did it for real on
one long weekend that started on Thursday afternoon and ended on Sunday
morning. Two of the practice runs were functional in nature and the
third was a full dress rehersal to establish that we could get it done
in the predicted time frame. The practice helps in finding patches and
things that don't work as advertised. In particualar, you will face
some necessity to change business processes as 11i is not exactly the
same as 10.7, so you must involve your users in the practice runs. Be
prepared to have your database double on you as you go. We went from
98GB to now 230GB.
We had to split the tiers to avoid buying all new hardware. We
currently run on an N4000 as the apps tier with 10GB of RAM and 4 CPU's
of the 440MHz flavor. We had an RP7200 that was originally the sole
machine for Fin Apps which is now the DB server. We added 2 CPU's to
get to 6 and we added 6Gb of RAM to get to 12GB. We have about 130
concurrent users. We used rough estimates of about 20MB per form for
each user.
This is not really a Fin Apps list so I will defer more discussion to
e-mail. I can be reached as [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the obvious
exclusion.
Allan
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Hello Gurus
We are in process of planning to upgrade our existing Oracle Financials
10.7
Character Applications to 11i( ver 11.5.8)
Existing env
HP-UX 11.00 32bits
Oracle Financials 10.7 Char
with Manufacturing Bill of Material
Some customization (of Forms Reports)
No middle tier
Database 7.3.4.5
Existing Database size is 70G(We don't expect migration as export)
Planning for
HP-UX 11.0 32 bits (same platform)
Oracle Financials 11i(11.5.8)
with Manufacturing Bill of Material
Customization upgrade to Forms6i and Report 6i
Database 8.1.7.4
What shall be the best path for this upgrade. I would like some personal
experiences / guidance or pointer to some white papers (besides
Metalink).
At this stage we are putting some high level plan for management
information
and their approval.
Regards
Rafiq
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