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ERRORS DBCA DISCOVERING AN EXISTENT ASM INSTANCE IN RAC AND NON RAC (Doc ID 436827.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 17, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 [Release 10.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

There is a common situation in installations where ASM is used and users need to create a new database through DBCA.  Either in RAC or NON-RAC environments, when the storage selected for the new database is ASM, DBCA complains because can not find the active ASM instance.

DBCA could not startup the ASM instance configured on this node. To proceed with database creation using ASM you need the ASM instance to be up and running. Do you want to recreate the ASM instance on this node?"



This document will help to diagnose the problem in RAC and NON-RAC environments.

Troubleshooting Steps

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In this Document
Purpose
Troubleshooting Steps
 Creating a database type Oracle Real Application Cluster Database
 Creating adatabase type Oracle Single Instance Database
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