Can two sessions of opatch, same database, run at once?
Hi, DBAs
This is 11.2.0.2 RAC on rhel5 x86_64. I have two rolling-installable patches I need to apply to several databases. To avoid stopping and starting the same instance more than once, can two sessions of opatch run at the same time?
I mean these sequence of steps:
1. Stop instance 1
2. Start opatch for patch A and complete it on instance 1
3. Start opatch for patch B and complete it on instance 1
4. Start instance 1
5. Run steps 1 - 4 for the remaining instances until each patch has been applied in full.
If this works, is there a restriction about which host starts opatch? Can both opatch sessions run from host 1?