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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Start CRS even getting “ORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete” on voting file/OCR diskgroup

May 28, 2019 Leave a comment

Problem:

CRS was down on both nodes, during startup cluster encountered the following error when it was trying to mount diskgroup containing voting files and OCR:

WARNING: Disk Group VOTE containing configured OCR is not mounted
WARNING: Disk Group VOTE containing voting files is not mounted
ORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete
ORA-15042: ASM disk "0" is missing from group number "1"

The diskgroup, where OCR and voting files were located was not able to mount because one disk was missing. As a result CRS is down:

# crsctl status res -t
 CRS-4535: Cannot communicate with Cluster Ready Services
 CRS-4000: Command Status failed, or completed with errors.

We know that NORMAL redundancy diskgroup can tolerate one mirror problem at a time.

Solution:

1. Start HAS and check status of the local resoureces

# crsctl start has

# crsctl status res -t -init

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name          Target      State        Server      State details       
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cluster Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
ora.asm
       1       ONLINE      ONLINE       rac2         STABLE
 ora.cluster_interconnect.haip
       1        ONLINE     ONLINE       rac2         STABLE
 ora.crf
       1        OFFLINE    OFFLINE                   STABLE
 ora.crsd
       1        ONLINE      OFFLINE                  STABLE
 ora.cssd
       1        ONLINE      ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.cssdmonitor
       1        ONLINE      ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.ctssd
       1        ONLINE      ONLINE       rac2        OBSERVER,STABLE
 ora.diskmon
       1        OFFLINE      OFFLINE                 STABLE
 ora.drivers.acfs
       1        ONLINE      ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.evmd
       1        ONLINE      INTERMEDIATE rac2        STABLE
 ora.gipcd
       1        ONLINE      ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.gpnpd
       1        ONLINE      ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.mdnsd
       1        ONLINE      ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.storage
       1        ONLINE      OFFLINE      rac2        STABLE

2. Connect to the ASM instance and mount diskgroup using force option.

ASM instance will be in nomount state, because diskgroup having voting files and OCR cannot be mounted.

Force option is mandatory, otherwise you will get the same ORA-15040 error.

# su - grid

$ sqlplus / as sysasm

SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Tue May 28 16:14:14 2019
Copyright (c) 1982, 2016, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to:
 Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production

SQL> alter diskgroup VOTE mount force;
Diskgroup altered.

This operation sometimes takes ~6min to complete because of the following notification in alert_ASM?.log 

"WARNING: Background operations delayed until 05/28/19 16:19:47 because ASM was not stopped cleanly and there could be disconnected client(s)"

The error message is self explanatory.

3. The diskgroup online operation on the 2nd step should trigger clusterware autostart, if not start it using the following command:

# crsctl start cluster

4. Check CRS status:

# crsctl status res -t 

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name           Target  State        Server       State details       
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Local Resources

ora.ASMNET1LSNR_ASM.lsnr
                ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
ora.DATA.dg
                ONLINE  OFFLINE      rac2        STABLE
ora.FRA.dg
                ONLINE  OFFLINE      rac2        STABLE
ora.LISTENER.lsnr
                ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
ora.MGMT.dg
                ONLINE  OFFLINE      rac2        STABLE
ora.VOTE.dg
                ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
ora.chad
                ONLINE  OFFLINE      rac2        STABLE
ora.net1.network
                ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
ora.ons
                ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
ora.proxy_advm
                OFFLINE OFFLINE      rac2        STABLE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cluster Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.LISTENER_SCAN2.lsnr
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.LISTENER_SCAN3.lsnr
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.MGMTLSNR
       1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                  STABLE
 ora.asm
       1        ONLINE  OFFLINE                  STABLE
       2        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        Started,STABLE
 ora.cvu
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.mgmtdb
       1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                  STABLE
 ora.qosmserver
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE 
 ora.rac1.vip
       1        ONLINE  INTERMEDIATE rac2        FAILED OVER,STABLE
 ora.rac2.vip
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.scan1.vip
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.scan2.vip
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE
 ora.scan3.vip
       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rac2        STABLE

Recommendation:

Change corrupted disks as soon as possible and make it online.

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