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Starting and Stopping commands for

RAC instances
by SandeepSingh DBA

3-4 minutes

Starting and Stopping of RAC instance is managed from OS

with srvctl command.
It provide different option at database , instance and service
level to stop and start the database or instances present in RAC
Environment.

Following are the command for Sart or Stop the

database/instances:

Start or Stop the Instance of database:

command start/stop the Particular|all instances with services.

srvctl start/stop instance -db ORCL -node NODE1

-instance ORCL_1 -STARTOPTION|STOPOPTION

[OPEN | MOUNT | NOMOUNT | NORMAL |

TRANSACTIONAL | IMMEDIATE | ABORT ]

Start or stop all instance of database with database

It start/stop the cluster database with enable all instances and
services

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srvctl start|stop database -db ORCL

-startoption|stopoption

[OPEN | MOUNT | NOMOUNT | NORMAL |

TRANSACTIONAL | IMMEDIATE | ABORT ]

Starting or stopping with SQLPLUS:

Note: you cannot start/stop multiple instance in SQLPLUS. Only
current instance you can start or shutdown with sqlplus prompt:

sqlplus sys@orcl_1 as sysdba

shutdown immediate;

startup;

sqlplus sys@orcl_2 as sysdba

shutdown immediate;

startup;

Examples of start or stop with srvctl commands:

Check the status of instances in the database:

srvctl status database -db ORCL

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Instance ORCL_1 is running on node NODE1

Instance ORCL_2 is running on node NODE2

Instance ORCL_3 is running on node NODE3

Stop the instance ORCL_1 with srvctl command

srvctl stop instance -db ORCL -node NODE1

-stopoption abort

OR

srvctl stop instance -db ORCL -instance ORCL_1

-stopption abort

Check the status of one instance is stopped in ORCL RAC:

srvctl status database -db ORCL

Instance ORCL_1 is not running on node NODE1

Instance ORCL_2 is running on node NODE2

Instance ORCL_3 is running on node NODE3

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Stop all the instance then we used database option to stop:

srvctl stop database -db ORCL -stopoption

transactional

Check the database status all instances must be stopped.

srvctl status database -db ORCL

Instance ORCL_1 is not running on node NODE1

Instance ORCL_2 is not running on node NODE2

Instance ORCL_3 is not running on node NODE3

Start the one instance of ORCL database:

srvctl start database -db ORCL -node NODE1

or

srvctl start database -instance ORCL_1

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Check status node1 is started:

srvctl status database -db ORCL

Instance ORCL_1 is running on node NODE1

Instance ORCL_2 is not running on node NODE2

Instance ORCL_3 is not running on node NODE3

Start all the instances with database command:

srvctl start database -ORCL

Check status of all instances:

srvctl status database -db ORCL

Instance ORCL_1 is running on node NODE1

Instance ORCL_2 is running on node NODE2

Instance ORCL_3 is running on node NODE3

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Manage the RAC pluggable database start/stop by services

Note: Need to assign the service to pluggable database for
manage start or stop of PDB database.

1. Assign a service to pdb1 pluggable database :

srvctl add service -db raccdb -pdb pdb1

-service pdb1srv -serverpool sp1

2. For start or stop the pluggable database:

srvctl start service -db raccdb -service

pdb1srv

srvctl stop service -db raccdb -service pdb1srv

3. Check the status for pluggable database:

srvctl status service -db raccdb -service

pdb1arv

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