July 2013 archive

Jul 09

Oracle RAC in VMWare hangs with ORA-27072: File I/O error

During three months, I have had constant problems of an Oracle RAC installation suddenly hanging. The system was as follows: O.S: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga) - x86_64 Kernel: 2.6.18-308.16.1.el5 VMWare: VMware ESXi 5.0 Oracle 11.2.0.3 PSU 6 Oracle homes in different drives and shared disks for RAC via VMFS It was …

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