Steps to move the Oracle Grid Home location in Oracle Environment

1. Login with root user, Stop CRS services.

cd /u01/app/12.2.0/grid/bin
./crsctl stop crs
./crsctl stop cluster


2. Login with grid user, shutdown or kill all the services running from Oracle grid existing home.

ps -ef


kill -9


3. Login as Grid user, deattch the grid home with following command.

/u01/app/12.2.0/grid/oui/bin/runInstaller -silent -waitforcompletion\
-detachHome ORACLE_HOME='/u01/app/12.2.0/grid' -local


4. Login as Root user, Copy the old grid binaries to new location.

mkdir /u01/app/12c
cp -pR /u01/app/12.2.0/grid /u01/app/12c


5. Login as Root user, Unlock the destination folder:

cd /u01/app/12c/grid/crs/install
rootcrs.sh -unlock -dstcrshome /u01/app/12c/grid


6. Root user, Relink and clone the new binaries oracle binaries.
Clone command asked for some parameters or you can pass directly

---Go to the path as old home and pass parameter as new home
cd rid_home/clone/bin
run the clone.pl

--On Linux System
perl clone.pl -silent ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle ORACLE_HOME=
/u01/app/12c/grid ORACLE_HOME_NAME=OraHome1Grid
INVENTORY_LOCATION=/u01/app/oraInventory LOCAL_NODE=node1 CRS=TRUE


-- On Window System:
perl clone.pl ORACLE_BASE=D:\u01\app\grid ORACLE_HOME=D:\u01\app\grid\12c
ORACLE_HOME_NAME=OraHome1Grid ORACLE_HOME_USER=Oracle_home_user_name
"LOCAL_NODE=node1" CRS=TRUE


7. From ROOT user, Run the following command after clone.pl prompt by clone.pl

run orainstRoot.sh and root.sh


8. From ROOT user, start up from new home location.

cd /u01/app/12c/grid/crs/install
# rootcrs.sh -move -dstcrshome /u01/app/12c/grid


9. If you doing it on RAC Environment then do this on every node.