oraclednaInstead of doing fresh installation of Grid Infrastructure Home with respective patches, we can clone the existing GI home using Golden Image method. By using this Golden Image, we can install GI home in another server with already applied patches.
1. Create directory at OS level to store the Golden Images.
[grid@racnode1 ~]$ mkdir -p /u01/app/grid/GoldImage
2. Create the Golden Image of 19c GI home, from GI home execute the below command.
[grid@racnode1 ~]$ cd /u01/app/19.0.0/grid
[grid@racnode1 grid]$ ./gridSetup.sh -createGoldImage -destinationLocation /u01/app/grid/GoldImage -silent
Launching Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup Wizard…
Successfully Setup Software.
Gold Image location: /u01/app/grid/GoldImage/grid_home_2026-03-01_02-01-26PM.zip
3. Verify whether the golden Image created or not.
[grid@racnode1 ~]$ cd /u01/app/grid/GoldImage
[grid@racnode1 GoldImage]$ ls -lrt
total 2802444
-rw-r–r– 1 grid oinstall 2869701449 Mar 1 14:05 grid_home_2026-03-01_02-01-26PM.zi
Disclaimer:
Please note the above information is only for educational purpose and practised in personal test database only. Always test in test database before implementing in production database. The pre-requisites and ways of implementing may vary from one environment to another. Hence, not providing guarantee that it will work in your environment.
