Starting / Stopping

The following can be done on any node of a RAC cluster.

To shut down a RAC database (all instances)

$ORACLE_HOME/bin/srvctl [start|stop] database -d

To shut down a RAC database instance

$ORACLE_HOME/bin/srvctl [start|stop] instance -d -I

For a one node cluster

$ORACLE_HOME/bin/srvctl [start|stop] database -d <database_name>

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