Patching and Upgrades - Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach - page 329

Figure 11-1. Latest releases from MOS Note 888828.1

As of October 2012, Quarterly Full Stack Download for Exadata (QFSDP) patch 14207418 was released. This is
the version we will base our planning on in this recipe and the other recipes in this chapter. Under the Individual
Components section on MOS note 888828.1, you can see the following:

• QFSDP patch 14207418 contains patch 14212264 for the Exadata storage cells

• The 11.2.0.3 QDPE patch 14084153 patch for Exadata

• Oracle 11gR2 Patch Set 2 (10404530)

• InfiniBand switch patch 12373676

• Patches for the PDUs and KVM switch

Download QFSDP patch 14207418, or the latest patch offered at the time you read this recipe, from My Oracle
Support, and take some time to read the QFSDP patch README file as well as the individual README files in each
component patch included in the QFSDP patch. To access the individual patch README files, download the patch from
My Oracle Support and stage to a directory on your first compute node.
We typically recommend reading through the various patch README files in this order:

First read the contents of the <patch>/ExadataStorageServer/<release>/README*.html .
For recent storage server patches, you will usually have two patches in this location, one for
the storage server patch and one containing the ISO image for the compute node patches.

1.

Look for references to required InfiniBand patches in the ExadataStorageServer
patch README.html files. If your InfiniBand switch firmware version is lower than the
recommended version, you should patch your InfiniBand switches first, as discussed in
Recipe 11-5.

2.

Next, examine the README contents in the <patch>/Database/<QDPE Patch number>
directory.

3.

Finally, read the <patch>/SystemsManagement README files and plan accordingly. 4.