Recommendation on EBS R12 Migration Approach
Hi Team,
We are currently running Oracle E-Business Suite R12, with both the application and database tiers hosted on physical servers (4 OCPUs each) running RHEL 7.9. We are planning to migrate the environment from physical servers to VMware virtual machines.
We have migrated to fusion and still 2 applications are running in existing physical servers and we will also migrate them in next 1 or 2 months. However, historical data remains in Oracle EBS R12, which must continue to be maintained and supported.
From a risk and supportability perspective, we would like your recommendation on the following:
Migration Strategy:
Is it recommended to:
Perform the migration from physical servers to VMware VMs while retaining the existing RHEL 7.9 operating system, and then carry out the OS upgrade seperately?