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[VMDB] Scaling down shape failed by DCS-10085, ORA-01078 (Doc ID 2940865.1)

Last updated on APRIL 11, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Scaling down shape from VM.Standard2.16 to VM.Standard2.4 failed by DCS-10085, ORA-01078.

# /opt/oracle/dcs/bin/dbcli describe-job -l Verbose -i <job id>

Job details
----------------------------------------------------------------
ID: <job id>
Description: Scale xxx VM from VM.Standard2.16 to VM.Standard2.4 [pre_action]
Status: Failure
Created: April 3, 2023 10:12:07 AM UTC
Progress: 2%
Message: DCS-10085:Database startup failed. xxx - PRCD-1332 : failed to start database xxx
PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.xxx.db
CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.xxx.db start" encountered the following error:
ORA-01078: failure in pr
Cause: Connection to the database failed
Action: Check connection to the database.

Task Name Start Time End Time Status
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
task:TaskSequential_74 April 3, 2023 10:12:08 AM UTC April 3, 2023 10:23:31 AM UTC Failure
task:TaskZLockWrapper_75 April 3, 2023 10:12:08 AM UTC April 3, 2023 10:23:31 AM UTC Failure
Update limits conf: xxx April 3, 2023 10:12:08 AM UTC April 3, 2023 10:12:08 AM UTC Success
Open DB if down: xxx: xxx April 3, 2023 10:12:08 AM UTC April 3, 2023 10:23:31 AM UTC Failure

Then implemented startup manually but failed as well.

SQL> startup
ORA-00821: Specified value of sga_target 29184M is too small, needs to be at least 67456M
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters

Cause

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