I've not done this, but it will not work if your UIDs and GIDs for oracle, oinstall, etc. vary at all from system to system. Cheers, Wayne - Dunbar's Law: Software efficiency halves every 18 months thus compensating for Moore's Law. -- Norm Dunbar On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Currently we are running 10g EE on SUSE10 on an IBM mainframe. Early > February we will be getting a new mainframe. The storage for all > databases will be unplugged from the old mainframe and plugged into > the new one. So far no issues, I've done this before. > > The next step is to upgrade all databases to 11g. My lead SA informed > today that he wants to use the same oracle binaries for all database > VMs. I can see the benefits from his perspective but I don't think > that should be the overriding concern here. He doesn't manage the > oracle binaries, I do. Has anyone done the shared binaries between > servers before? What are your thoughts? > > -- > Sandy > Transzap, Inc. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l