Removing/Reconfiguring a Grid Infrastructure configuration

We are going to look at the necessary steps that are required to remove a successful Grid Infrastructure configuration or reconfigure a failed Grid Infrastructure configuration.

Removing a successful Grid Infrastructure configuration

You may find that it is necessary to remove the Grid Infrastructure configuration for technical or non-technical reasons. Keep in mind that to remove a successful configuration, you are required to perform a two-step action:

  • You need to deconfigure the Clusterware services
  • You need to deinstall the software binaries

Firstly, stop any active databases running on the node, followed by an ASM instance. You could use the SRVCTL STOP DATABASE/ASM or the SQLPLUS command ...

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