Stopping the Oracle RAC 10g Environment

The first step is to stop the Oracle instance. When the instance (and related services) is down, then bring down the ASM instance. Finally, shut down the node applications (Virtual IP, GSD, TNS Listener, and ONS).

$ export ORACLE_SID=orcl1 $ emctl stop dbconsole $ srvctl stop instance -d orcl -i orcl1 $ srvctl stop asm -n linux1 $ srvctl stop nodeapps -n linux1 

Starting the Oracle RAC 10g Environment

The first step is to start the node applications (Virtual IP, GSD, TNS Listener, and ONS). When the node applications are successfully started, then bring up the ASM instance. Finally, bring up the Oracle instance (and related services) and the Enterprise Manager Database console.

$ export ORACLE_SID=orcl1 $ srvctl start nodeapps -n linux1 $ srvctl start asm -n linux1 $ srvctl start instance -d orcl -i orcl1 $ emctl start dbconsole 

Start/Stop All Instances with SRVCTL

Start/stop all the instances and their enabled services. I have included this step just for fun as a way to bring down all instances!

$ srvctl start database -d orcl  $ srvctl stop database -d orcl

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A brief Summary of Steps to Start / Shutdown RAC/ASM Setup (Oracle 11g):

Shutdown

1. shutdown database
srvctl stop database -d  "that will shutdown ALL running instances of "
srvctl stop instance -d  -i  "that will shutdown only specified instance of , other running instances will continue to run"

2. shutdown ASM
srvctl stop asm -n  "run it for every rac node one-by-one"

3. shutdown nodeapps
srvctl stop nodeapps -n  "run it for every rac node one-by-one"

4. Shutdown crs processes
crsctl stop crs
Startup

1. crsctl start crs -> that will start crs processes (HA-Engine), NodeApps, then ASM then Database's Instances then HA-Services (if any)