Creating ASM devices on AIX
I thought of sharing few tips on creating ASM devices on AIX which I will be helpful to Oracle DBA's. Suppose SysAdmin gives you list of Serial numbers for LUN…
CRS Fails to Start – 10.2.0.1 RAC Install on AIX
I was installing 10.2.0.1 on IBM AIX 5L and while running root.sh from first node (as part of Clusterware installation) got following messages Now formatting voting device: /dev/voting_disk01 Now formatting…
Creating Oracle Extended RAC on Oracle VM
Yesterday, I found one very useful article at OTN "Creating Oracle Extended RAC" on completely virtual environment using Oracle VM. As Virtualization is becoming popular day by day and is…
10g RAC Tuning :Useful Link
I came across useful link which contains 10g RAC Tuning tips from Joel Goodman (Oracle). It discusses RAC Instance Recovery concepts and key things to look out for while tuning…
How To Recover From Corrupted OCR Disk
It is very common where a DBA is left with corrupted OCR disk without having any good backup. The same situation was experienced by me few days back. One node…
Issues with CLUSTER_DATABASE parameter
Yesterday, I faced an interesting scenario while upgrading 2 Node RAC Database. I tried setting up CLUSTER_DATABASE=FALSE in spfile from Node 1,but it displayed value as TRUE after restarting database.Same was…