NW 7.01 on Oracle 10.2.0.4 - Upgrade Path to NW 7.4 on Oracle 11.2

[Former Member]

Hi all

One of our clients has a 2-system-BW-landscape (2 physical hosts) based on the following versions:

* Windows 2008 R2 SP1

* Oracle 10.2.0.4.0

* Oracle Client 10.2.0.4.0

* NetWeaver 7.01 SP7

* SAP Kernel 7.01 Patch 94 64bit UC

As you can see 60% of the setup is no longer in maintenance. The client does not have sufficient hardware ressources for a third physical host.

I wonder what is the best approach (upgrade path) to update to

* Oracle 11.2.0.4

* NetWeaver 7.4

* Kernel 7.41

* Oracle Client 11.2.0.4

My inital thoughts:

1. Upgrade Kernel from 7.01 64bit UC to 7.20 (non-EXT) 64bit UC
2. Upgrade Oracle InstantClient from 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4
3. Upgrade Oracle from 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4
4. Upgrade NetWeaver to 7.4

I know there are a whole lot of SAP Notes about these topics, but maybe one can already suggest a way to go.

What do you think?

BR Michael

[former_member188883 · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

These sequence of steps which you described looks good.

1. Upgrade Kernel from 7.01 64bit UC to 7.20 (non-EXT) 64bit UC
2. Upgrade Oracle InstantClient from 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4
3. Upgrade Oracle from 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4
4. Upgrade NetWeaver to 7.4

Steps 2+3 can be combined together and you will be left with only 3 steps.

Regards,

Deepak Kori

[divyanshu_srivastava3]

I would go for

1st kernel 720.

2nd DB patch

3rd DB update

4th SAP + kernel.

[Reagan]

Hello

Maintenance 1 - Perform an Oracle upgrade to 11G and also get the kernel and Oracle Instant Client updated.

Maintenance 2 - Create a stack file and upgrade the SAP system to 7.4 release

Regards

RB