Make Oracle ASM voting file online

December 9, 2021 Leave a comment

Problem:

After changing the quorum node instance type, my cluster’s one of the voting file became offline:

[root@rac1 ~]# crsctl query css votedisk
##  STATE    File Universal Id                File Name Disk group
--  -----    -----------------                --------- ---------
 1. ONLINE   49400dd2b39a4f12bf3c5fa677c056fe (/dev/flashgrid/rac2.xvdba) [GRID]
 2. ONLINE   4a6d94d206104fe6bfbe5435ac7f4586 (/dev/flashgrid/rac1.xvdba) [GRID]
 3. OFFLINE  faf99f5fd78f4f35bfe833bdd1d22b9a (/dev/flashgrid/racq.xvdba) [GRID]
Located 3 voting disk(s).

Solution:

Find out the ASM disk name which contains mentioned voting file, offline and online it:

SQL> select NAME from v$ASM_DISK where PATH='/dev/flashgrid/racq.xvdba';

NAME
------------------------------
RACQ$XVDBA

Offline the disk:

SQL> alter diskgroup GRID offline quorum disk "RACQ$XVDBA";

Diskgroup altered.

Online again:

SQL> alter diskgroup GRID online quorum disk "RACQ$XVDBA";

Diskgroup altered.

Check the status again:

SQL> !crsctl query css votedisk

##  STATE    File Universal Id                File Name Disk group
--  -----    -----------------                --------- ---------
 1. ONLINE   49400dd2b39a4f12bf3c5fa677c056fe (/dev/flashgrid/rac2.xvdba) [GRID]
 2. ONLINE   4a6d94d206104fe6bfbe5435ac7f4586 (/dev/flashgrid/rac1.xvdba) [GRID]
 3. ONLINE   784f924d23c94f3fbf4287c5c6ef572c (/dev/flashgrid/racq.xvdba) [GRID]
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‘udev’ rules continuously being reloaded resulted in ASM nvme disks going offline

July 12, 2020 Leave a comment

Environment:

Linux Server release 7.2
kernel-3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64

Problem:

When Oracle processes are opening the device for writing and then closing it, this synthesizes a change event. And udev rules having  ACTION=="add|change" gets reloaded. This behavior causes ASM nvme disks to go offline:

Thu Jul 09 16:33:16 2020
WARNING: Disk 18 (rac1$disk1) in group 2 mode 0x7f is now being offlined

Fri Jul 10 10:04:34 2020
WARNING: Disk 19 (rac1$disk5) in group 2 mode 0x7f is now being offlined

Fri Jul 10 13:45:45 2020
WARNING: Disk 15 (rac1$disk8) in group 2 mode 0x7f is now being offlined

Solution:

To suppress the false positive change events disable the inotify watch for devices used for Oracle ASM using following steps:

  1.  Create /etc/udev/rules.d/96-nvme-nowatch.rules file with just one line in it:
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="nvme*", OPTIONS:="nowatch"

2. After creating the file please run the following to activate the rule:

# udevadm control --reload-rules
# udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=change

The above command will reload the complete udev configuration and will trigger all the udev rules. On a busy production system this could disrupt ongoing operations, applications running on the server. Please use the above command during a scheduled maintenance window only.

Source: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1465913 + our experience with customers.

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