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After a storage migration activity, a two-node Oracle RAC environment experienced Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) corruption. Although OCR was restored successfully on a newly provisioned disk, ASM instances repeatedly terminated with internal errors. Further investigation revealed that the issue was not related to Oracle software or OCR restore procedures, but…
In Oracle storage environments using ASM (Automatic Storage Management) with AFD (ASM Filter Driver), the UNMAP protocol plays a key role in space reclamation—especially when…
ASM Library (ASMLib) is a support library for the Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature. It simplifies storage management and enhances Oracle ASM functionality. Prerequisites…
I was attempting to migrate Oracle ASM UDEV-managed disks to Oracle ASM Filter Driver (AFD). Although I followed all the documented steps for migrating the…
OPatchAuto execution fails during the bootstrap phase with error code 255.The failure prevents successful patching operations. Symptom Getting issue while running the Opatchauto on my…
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