Re: Issues with server and need to restore controlfiles and spfiles

Hmmmm -
Restore to single instance from commvault. After it's up and open, convert to RAC...

Doug

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:36 PM Sandra Becker <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Oracle Database & Grid: 11.2.0.1
> OS: RHEL5.5
>
> We had some issues with a database server and the 9 databases stopped
> working. The sys admins suggested a reboot, which we did. GRID/ASM would
> not come back online after the reboot. It says it can't find the ASM
> disks, but everything the sys admins look at say they are there and
> online.
>
> We tried restoring the $GRID_HOME, but that didn't change anything. Our
> Rimini support said a lot of libraries were missing from the $GRID_HOME, so
> another DBA tried to getting the missing files. Still no luck. It's a
> two-node RAC, but only one of the nodes was functional at the time we
> rebooted the first node. The second has the same issues as the first, so
> we can't bring anything online there either.
>
> We tried setting up on another comparable cluster, but due to the way the
> database configurations were done in CommVault for the "bad" server,
> CommVault thinks they are single instance and won't let us restore to a RAC.
>
> Ultimately, we want to move these databases to a non-ASM server in AWS.
> Any suggestions as to what we can do? I was wondering if we could
> reinstall GRID/ASM on the "bad" server and then use Commvault to do our
> restores. Is that totally off base or a viable option?
>
> --
> Sandy B.
>
>

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