Unable to Start CRS/RAC on More Than One Node Oracle 11gR2 On Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

(Doc ID 1639582.1)

Last updated on APRIL 23, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.3 and later
Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit) - Version: 2008 R2

Symptoms

Running Oracle GI/RAC 11gR2 on window 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.

Unable to start CRS/RAC on more than one node at a time.

Check the contents of the RDBMS alert.log on the problem node.
(found in the directory given by the INIT parameter background_dump_dest - default location is %ORACLE_BASE%\diag\rdbms\<dbname>\<sid>\trace)

Reconfiguration complete
Wed Jan 15 18:31:37 2014
Errors in file D:\xxx\+asm1_diag_2660.trc:
ORA-27506: IPC error connecting to a port
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:IPC_TCPConnectCheck failed with status: -1
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: IPC_TCPCheck
Wed Jan 15 18:32:01 2014
Errors in file D:\xxx\+asm1_diag_2660.trc:
ORA-27506: IPC error connecting to a port
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:IPC_TCPConnectCheck failed with status: -1
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: IPC_TCPCheck

Changes

Applied the MS windows security patches.

Cause

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