Platform migration vi storage replication?

We have a 10.2.0.4 database running on HPUX platform which uses EMC for it's storage. We want to migrate the database to an AIX server. Is it possible to just clone the luns where the datafiles live using the EMC utilities and then bring up a database on the AIX server since both platform use big endian for the files?
Thanks.

923395 wrote:
We have a 10.2.0.4 database running on HPUX platform which uses EMC for it's storage. We want to migrate the database to an AIX server. Is it possible to just clone the luns where the datafiles live using the EMC utilities and then bring up a database on the AIX server since both platform use big endian for the files?
Thanks.Sounds plausible. What does it cost to actually test it? If you clone the luns, the live, current database is not going to care about what you do with the clones. And whether it works or not, you'll know the answer first hand instead of taking as gospel something you 'read on the internet'.
It must be true, I read it on the internet. They can't put anything on the internet that isn't true.
Where did you read that?
On the internet.

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