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You might want to indicate your Oracle version, including patches. Bit hard to crystal ball such facts :)
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You might want to indicate your Oracle version, including patches. Bit hard to crystal ball such facts :)

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Speaking only for the Oracle aspect:<br />
Make sure you have a good database backup just in case.<br />
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Short of that, nothing I can think of. &nbsp;Pretty sure Oracle won't care what firmware the blade is running.
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Speaking only for the Oracle aspect:
Make sure you have a good database backup just in case.

Short of that, nothing I can think of.  Pretty sure Oracle won't care what firmware the blade is running.

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Take a complete database backup on your database or files plus system back up.<br />
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There is no &quot;downlevel&quot; on IBM UEFI/firmware, if you have a dead blade after flashing, you will be most likely restoring from back up.
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Take a complete database backup on your database or files plus system back up.

There is no "downlevel" on IBM UEFI/firmware, if you have a dead blade after flashing, you will be most likely restoring from back up.

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from my experience of doing the same
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i am planning to stop all services and stop a Oracle &nbsp;server Working on &nbsp;Redhat linux with IBM Server Blade to upgrade its Firmware, &nbsp; kindly indicate areas.... i should take care before doing so, like i have already taken File system back up from Read hat Linux with symantec , also i hope there will be no any compatibility issue with Red Hat Linux 5.3 and upgraded version of IBM firmware. Kindly alert me areas i have to take care.
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i am planning to stop all services and stop a Oracle  server Working on  Redhat linux with IBM Server Blade to upgrade its Firmware,   kindly indicate areas.... i should take care before doing so, like i have already taken File system back up from Read hat Linux with symantec , also i hope there will be no any compatibility issue with Red Hat Linux 5.3 and upgraded version of IBM firmware. Kindly alert me areas i have to take care.

Details we have to Consider shutdowning oracle Server on Red Hat linux server for Firm Ware upgrade on IBM Blade

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