ASM Communication Error ORA-15055 ORA-21561 (Doc ID 1565297.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Generic Windows
***Checked for relevance on 24-Mar-2015***

Symptoms

In Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3 on Windows 2008 R2 the application may run extreamly slow and some times just hanging and there may be many errors like below on one of the RAC Database Nodes:

WARNING: ASM communication error: op 0 state 0x0 (15055)
ERROR: direct connection failure with ASM

ORA-15055: unable to connect to ASM instance
ORA-21561: OID generation failed
ORA-15055: unable to connect to ASM instance
ORA-21561: OID generation failed
ORA-00312: online log 1 thread 1: '+DBDATA/db/onlinelog/group_1.261.770482257'
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +DBDATA/db/onlinelog/group_1.261.770482257
ORA-15055: unable to connect to ASM instance
ORA-21561: OID generation failed

Cause

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ASM Communication Error ORA-15055 ORA-21561 (Doc ID 1565297.1)

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Symptoms

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