Re: Physical disk hangs at "offline pending"

Henry,

I think here we go wrong.

The disks your Oracle instances are using are not in the same group of your
Oracle instances.

so, this is what I think here is happening.
Cluster group online on node 1
Oracle group online on node 1

Oracle is happy, as its disks are accessible.... as they are all on node 1.

Cluster group wants to move over, tries to offline the disks, however your
Oracle instances still have a handle open on the disks, and therefore the
disk remains off-line pending until time out.

I seriously believe you need to change your configuration.

The cluster group should only contain the following :
1) Quorum disk
2) Cluster IP address
3) Cluster Network Name

Each of your Oracle groups need the following
1) IP address
2) Network Name
3) as many disks as this Oracle instance need, these disks can only be used
by this instance exclusively
4) Oracle services / applications for this instance.

Other than this, follow Oracle instructions for building your cluster,
invoke Oracle support for getting more information on how to configure your
clustered applications.

Rgds,
Edwin.


"Henry" <Henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Pardon my ignorance but I'm not sure what is meant by "take offline
everything but the cluster". If that means the cluster group, it was
modified
and contains:
Cluster IP
Cluster Name
Quorum disk physical disk
Oracle log physical disk
Oracle DB physical disk
Images physical disk
Oracle Services for MSCS
Several file shares dependant on the physical disks.

The other groups (2 for different instances) contain:
Oracle Database
Oracle failover IP address
Oracle Listener
Oracle network name

This is not how I originally configured it but it was changed by the DBA
that installed Oracle failsafe.

The two servers are identical (HW and OS).

Thanks in Advance,
--
Henry


"kkantchev@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

Hi,
In order to determine who is holding the HD resource, do the following.
1. Restart and bring everything up and running on node 1.
2. Take offline everything except the cluster.
3. Do failover to Node 2
4. Bring online only the HD in questin
5. Do failover back to Node1

If step 5 is not succeseful, then there is process external to the
cluster
that i causing the problem. Antivirus scan or something like that.
If step 5 is succeseful, then the problem is in your Oracle setup. In
this
case you have to send more details about your configuration.

Hope that helps

Krass


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