You can now upgrade Grid Infrastructure to 19c on Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer

 You can now upgrade Grid Infrastructure to 19c on Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer.

This blog post by Prince Mathew Principal Product Manager at Oracle highlights this new announcement for Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer.

Here is a brief summary of this new upgrade to 19c capability on Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer.

• Run a precheck before upgrade to the 19c Grid Infrastructure version to identify and resolve compatibility issues in advance.
• Even if a precheck is not run, an implicit precheck will always be run as part of the GI upgrade workflow to ensure that the cluster is ready for an upgrade.
• Upgrade existing VM Clusters to 19c Grid Infrastructure version which is now a required step before upgrading databases on the cluster to 19c.
• The GI version upgrade to 19c is applied in a rolling manner across the cluster and does result in downtime for running database workloads. 

GI upgrade is a planned activity.

Enjoy this blog post announcing this much needed new upgrade capability for Gen2 Exadata Cloud@Customer.

Cheers.