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Hey ,

even am facing the same problem, here am trying a single node installation , stilll it fails with same error.

just keep updating if you come across some info.

Thanks,
Phani

I tried to install Oracle 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure on Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtual machine (2 nodes), I got the exact the same error. Still working on it.

Have the same issues on a single node install. Contacted Oracle support. No help a week later from them.

I tried the same on Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 SP2 ( 2 nodes )with the same result. Let me know if you have a resolution.

Please install oracle 11g 32 bits on 2003 windows compatible mode on windows 2008 64-bit system it will work fine.

Please install oracle 11g 64 bit

Same problem here, SR opened at Oracle, no answer from them, not even a status report … Did they even try to install Grid Infra on R2 ? Did someone here managed to install it ?

I ran into the same issue, make sure that the host name specified in listener.ora matches that of your machine (/etc/hosts on linux) (%WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows).

Same problem here.. I disabled de UAC and it looks like its working. I’ll update when it finish.

to disable UAC : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691%28WS.10%29.aspx

@juandie
not sure was that…. y did 3 installs
1- your error
(disable UAC)
2- deinstall and then i didnt hit that error but hit another one while configuring listener. i thougth that something was not properly clean after the first install. So i uninstall again, But this time i also erase the asm disks…
3- i hit the same error again…

im cleaning… reinstalling again… clueless

@juandie
UAC is not the answer….
hosts file has the info and both node resolve fine..

still clueless

@Ronny Egner
i manage to install it by changing the diskgroup… i was using a 1.5G and change it to a 13G

:)

We encountered a similar problem, and found the following things

- The failure of the “Grid Installation Configuration” step could be caused by many different kinds of errors, some of them silent (no useful information in any install logs)

- Useful logs to look at are in \app\11.2.0\grid\cfgtoollogs\crsconfig – rootcrs_.log_OUT and rootcrs_.log

- We saw the same service errors as described in your post, as well as these error messages in the rootcrs_.log file:

StartService(OracleRemoteExecService) waiting for service to complete
service status 4, still waiting
…
service status 4, still waiting
service terminated (0×0)
Warning failed to Stop (OracleRemoteExecService) service. The service has not been started.

These errors do not seem to be a problem. We eventually were able to install RAC and then the DB successfully, and we still saw those errors. Everything seems to be working fine otherwise.

- In one case where the “Grid Installation Configuration” step failed, we saw these error messages:

DiskGroup DATA creation failed with the following message: ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be createdORA-15307: disk DATA_0000 not discoverable by CSS

This was because the required disks to be used for OCR/voting ASM volume were not ‘online’ on the remote node.

- In another case where the “Grid Installation Configuration” step failed, we could see no useful error messages in any of the logs, but it turned out that our node hostnames could not be resolved by DNS, or by hosts file. Fixing the hostname resolution allowed us to install RAC successfully.

Our conclusion is that the RAC installer is very poor at providing useful error messages :( I was expecting much better from Oracle…

Anyway, I hope this information helps someone!

Same Problem … Contacted Oracle support … and that was the answer:

RAC on Windows 2008: Oracle Grid Infrastructure / Clusterware Currently Incompatible with Microsoft Failover Clustering (MSFC) (Doc ID 1157711.1)

Now the Installation works.

There is also a Problem when IPv6 is enabled !

Hi there,

stumbling across the same errors. Did you install with advanced options using the new GNS or did you manually set the scan/vip ips?

Hi

Facing similar problem on Windows 2008. All pre-requisites check are fine. But dont seems to understand the error. Is it something to do with Windows 2008 priviledges or with Oracle.

The Installation fails at the end while doing Grid infrastructure configuration. Realised that create the registry entries has some issues according to the logs and Windows event logs.

If there are some answers please update.

Thanks and Regards

Diogo

Hi

Had to give up on Windows 2008 at the moment. It works fine on Windows 2003.

My installation is not VMWARE but was getting the same error as yours on 2008 R2.

Thanks and Regards

Diogo Fernandes

Hi,

I am also exactly facing the same error. I am trying on Windows 2008 SP2 X64

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!
~Vivek

@Diogo Fernandes

RAC on Windows 2008: Oracle Grid Infrastructure / Clusterware Currently Incompatible with Microsoft Failover Clustering (MSFC) (Doc ID 1157711.1)

Deinstall the MS CLusterware !!!

I have encountered the same problem when installing Grid Infrastructure for RAC 11gR2 on W2008 R2 in VMWare environment.

After so many tries, I have successfully installed Grid Infrastructure and RAC 11gR2 on W2008 R2 with two Virtual nodes.

You can review the following link:

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1060060&start=0&tstart=0

Tuan Tran

Why do you wonder about errors during installation of Oracle RAC? All Oracle products are buggy!

@G
Hi,

We are having the same error DiskGroup OCR-Voting creation failed with the following message: ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be createdORA-15307: disk DATA_0000 not discoverable by CSS. ALl the disks on the remote node are offline. How did you resolve this “G”? Did you stop the install mount the drives and then restart the install. I don’t see how we can restart the install once this fails.

Thanks

Please advise if “Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition” and “Oracle 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.7.0)” combination is compatible . Appreciate your Quick response on this.
Many Thanks. Lokesh

Finally, I was able to overcome this issue “[INS-20802] Grid Infrastructure Configuration failed” and able to install Oracle 11g R2 Grid Infrastructure at Windows 2008 R2 Standard edition. It took more than a week time to really get to the bottom of the issue. Earlier, I had tried at least 5-6 times with different combinations and options.

In my case the issue was teaming of the NIC network adapter. After breaking the teaming of network, the cluster utility check also changed and reduced the “failed message” at only one place. I had two node setup – I run the cluster utility check at both the nodes. At node one it gave just one failed message and at node 2 – no failed message.

Thanks,
Gyan

Hi,

I tried to install Oracle 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure on Windows 2008 R2 x64 and gives the same error ([INS-20802] Grid Infrastructure Configuration failed).

I searched for patchs or some solution in Metalink and Google but no sucess.

Anybody have news ?

God bless.

Finally was able to install the grid infrastructure successfully.

1. Make sure that the disk drives are not lettered. After using the diskpart utility to create the partitions be sure to do a refresh in Disk Manager facility of Server Manager to be sure that none of the dirve has letters on all nodes. If they do, remove them and do a refresh again on all nodes to be sure that the drives are not lettered. This prevented us from succesfully configuring ASM.
2. issue a route 0.0.0.0 delete on all nodes. Caution be sure that you save your defualt gateway address before executing this command. You will need to re-enter it after issuing this command. You may also need to login from the console as you will not be able to access the server untill you enter the default gateway.
3. remove all network adapters leaving only the private and public interfaces and all references to ipv6 in all of the network adapters. When you issue an ipconfig /all you should only see the private and public interfaces. We had to issue the following commands in order to achieve this.
netsh Interface 6to4 set state state=disabled
netsh interface isatap set state disabled
netsh interface teredo set state disabled
plus we had to remove all of the ipv6 references in each of the remaining network adapters. You may need to enter further netsh commands depending on what interfaces are installed on your servers.

well , i am hit by the same error , but metalink says the error is not related to the service.
the service is a dummy service and can be ignored.
The erorr may be related to something else.

WIN: During Installation The Event Log Shows Failure To Start Some Services

Solution
OracleOUIVC8Service is a dummy service and it is actually not supposed to start. It is used by the installer to install VC8 binaries on the remote node. It’s not a proper Windows service and it is not expected to start, and in fact the Installer expects and handles the exceptions about the service not starting during the install process.

The same is true for the OracleOUIOraCrs11g_home1Service service and any other OracleOUI[homename]Service . These are dummy services used by the installer to run an executable and do install work. They are not actually supposed to start. So you can ignore these errors in the Windows event log.

Now
the clufy is ok,
the disks are online on both servers ,
tried removing teaming ,
followed the best practices installation from metalink ,,
but still no luck ..
support is working for more than a week now ,
I think i found something new ..

Have the same problem. Tried at least 15 times. Shery did you find a solution ?

I was experiencing the same problem. I am using vmware workstation and doing a two node install on Windows 2008 with 11GR2 clusterware just like most people here on this thread.

On the second node I set up a Windows DNS server with a forward and two reverse lookup zones (the two reverse lookup zones handled the vip and private network subnets). At first neither of my nodes were setup to use any kind of generic DNS name. So my hosts were just RAC1.localdomain, RAC1-VIP.localdomain, etc. And my forward lookup zone on my DNS configuration just used localdomain.

This appeared to be ok with the initial scan and node validation that the installer was doing. But the grid infrastructure part of the install appeared to have problems resolving the names at it just used RAC1 and RAC1-vip instead of a fully qualified domain. And even though I was using a DNS server my nslookups without the “.localdomain” were not resolving.

In the %GRID_HOME%\\cfgtoollogs\crsconfig\rootcrs_[node1] log file I saw the following errors:
PRKC-1023 : Invalid IP address format: rac1-vip
add nodeapps -n rac1 -A rac1-vip/255.255.255.0/eth0 on node=rac1 … failed
PRCR-1001 : Resource ora.net1.network does not exist

So I put both nodes in a domain called cookie.local. Then reconfigured my DNS so that the foward lookup zone referenced cookie.local. Then I put the entries for all server names back in. Once I did this everything worked.

We’re have a same error ([INS-20802] Grid Infrastructure Configuration failed) on Windows 2008R2 64bits

Anybody have a good news ?

this was the solution:

3. remove all network adapters leaving only the private and public interfaces and all references to ipv6 in all of the network adapters. When you issue an ipconfig /all you should only see the private and public interfaces. We had to issue the following commands in order to achieve this.
netsh Interface 6to4 set state state=disabled
netsh interface isatap set state disabled
netsh interface teredo set state disabled

thx Scott

This solution worked for me ! Thanks Thomas !
Be carefull : these interfaces aren’t displayed in the control panel.
Now another problem because setup failed on another step :-(

I ran into this is issue as well -

DiskGroup DATA creation failed with the following message: ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be createdORA-15307: disk DATA_0000 not discoverable by CSS

The problem was in my case the binding order of the iSCSI LUNs. The device order between the two nodes was different. I had created 6 x 500GB iSCSI Volumes which looked to be discovered OK. Then I ran into the installation errors above. I then increased the size of only one volume to 1GB and spotted that it was discovered as DISK5 of node A and as DISK2 on node B. I have deleted all RAW devices and re-discovered them.

After that the installation completed successfully.

It has only cost me 10 tries. ;-)

I’ve a problem which installing Grid Infrastructure,
Grid Infrastructe configuration failed,The Plug-in failed in its perform method

For initial timeouts i disabled ipV6 in Windows 2008 R2 and added database ip name in host. Been fine since then. I had four other network cards, i disabled three leaving the only 1 one i’m using.

It’s working now, thanks guys. Spent 6 useful hours on that already.

We are facing the problem with Grid Configuration step is failing in Grid Infrastructure install on production system where using OCFS on Windows 2008 R2 64bit. As Follows:

[INS-20802] Grid Infrastructure Configuration failed.

Please help if someone gone through this,

thanks,
Jane

I had a similar problem (unable to configure grid infrastructure) and it was a simple fix. The setup:
Windows 2008R2 running on Hyper-V
Oracle 11.2.0.3 grid infrastructure single instance setup

The error messages in the install log indicated that my user did not have administrative privileges. The privilege was granted through a group. I added my domain user directly to the Administrators group on the server and I was able to successfully configure Grid & ASM.

HTH!
-T. J.

I also have problems while installing on 2 VMware nodes, eachone is running on a different vmware server.

It seems that there is an issue during installation with the hdd on node 2

on each node there is a online Raw disk with 15GB, they have both the same location (bus and id), what have i done wrong?

2012-01-03 15:41:40: Executing cmd: E:\oracle\11.2.0\grid\bin\asmca -silent -diskGroupName DATA -diskList ‘\\.\ORCLDISKDATA0′ -redundancy EXTERNAL -configureLocalASM
2012-01-03 15:42:05: Command output:
>
> Disk Group DATA creation failed with the following message:
> ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be created
> ORA-15031: disk specification ‘\\.\ORCLDISKDATA0′ matches no disks
>
>
>End Command output
2012-01-03 15:42:05: Configuration of ASM … failed