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Convert Single instance to rac to a different server

Convert Single Instance (ASM) to RAC Instance (ASM) to different Server

Assuming you have already the following environment setup and ready

    1. 11gr2 Clusterware is already installed on your target machine (XYZ)     2. Target xyz is configured with +DATA as diskgroup     2. Source ABC is having single instance in ASM […]

addnode.sh failed with bin/lsnodes: struct size 0

Whilst adding a node failing with following errors in the addnode.log

INFO: /u01/app/11.2.0.4/grid/oui/bin/../bin/lsnodes: struct size 0 INFO: Vendor clusterware is not detected. INFO: Error ocurred while retrieving node numbers of the existing nodes. Please check if clusterware home is properly configured. SEVERE: Error ocurred while retrieving node numbers of the existing nodes. Please check if […]

12c Database: Lost of data files and its impacts

Hello,

I have been reading in other blog citing that what if lost of a data file scenario. Here are the questions.

1) if in case of system/user datafile lost of Pluggable database, what happens to CDB?

ANS: Nothing happens to CDB, it will still running, similar case in non-cdb database if a user data […]

Step by Step Build of Standby (dataguard) in two node RAC

Hello All,

Here are the steps to implement the Standby in RAC and the following is the test environment

Production RAC: Geek DBA12cprmy1 Geek DBA12cprmy2 Standby RAC:- Geek DBA12cdr1 Geek DBA12cdr2

1 . Add standby logs on Primary Database

alter database add standby logfile thread 1 group 10 (‘+PRMY_DATA’) size 500M; alter database add […]

Dataguard : Network Tuning Parameters

Whilst, was working on a dataguard network performance issue thought should write something on this.

The most important aspect of the dataguard is network transport, and if the undersized or improper configuration may lead to the redo transport issue and production may show you the log synch waits etc.

The following parameters may be tuned […]

Cluster not starting- cssd(12103)]CRS-2302:Cannot get GPnP profile. Error CLSGPNP_NO_DAEMON (GPNPD daemon is not running).

Hello All,

Long time !!! Its been very busy schedule and could not spend much on the blog at all.

Anyways back now, and here this time with gpnp profile.

Issue is , the node 2 not starting due to gpnp profile missing/mismatch. Following in the crs alert log in node 2 […]

ACFS-9317: No ADVM/ACFS distribution media detected at location: root.sh failed

Again, OEL 7 (UEK) and 12c Grid Infrastructure issue. OEL UEK 7 does not shipped or support ACFS yet, but we tried and stumbled :(.

Here is the log for root.sh failure.

ACFS-9317: No ADVM/ACFS distribution media detected at location: ‘/u02/app/11.2.0.2/grid1/install/usm/EL5/x86_64/2.6.18-8/2.6.18-8.el5-x86_64/bin’ root@ol5-112-rac1 ~]# /u02/app/11.2.0.2/grid1/bin/acfsroot install ACFS-9320: Missing file: ‘advmutil’. ACFS-9320: Missing file: ‘advmutil.bin’. ACFS-9320: Missing […]

ORA-12547: TNS: lost contact on DBCA in 12c with OEL 7 (UEK)

While running dbca we are receiving the ora-12547 and we could not able to create database using DBCA anymore.

After googling and metalink search found many notes which does not resolve the issue, the reasons can be multifold

Environments- SID, PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH – Not resolved Permission on oracle executable to 6751 – Not resolved Package […]

Upgrading 11gr2 to 12c using Transient logical standby – Rolling upgrade

Well, this is fairly an old topic but explored lately by me. Very big post click on read more to scroll down to full page.

Ah, I was trying to explore the upgrade from 11gr2 to 12c but not traditional way, and go these two excellent white papers.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/maa-wp-11g-transientlogicalrollingu-1-131927.pdf

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/maa-wp-11g-upgrades-made-easy-131972.pdf

The high level overview of […]

12c Server Pools in action : Instance and service failover to server pools

In the Previous post we have converted the orcl database to server pool OLTP_SP which is running on three nodes rac01,rac03,rac04 and free server is available in rac02.

Okay lets have some discussion before proceeding,

1. Does in pre 11g version , if a instance crashed does it failed over to any node?

No. […]