Start the ASM manually

ORACLE_Guide_Start the ASM manually

Just a case:

p630up[root]#su - oracle p630up[oracle]$export ORACLE_SID=+ASM2 p630up[oracle]$sqlplus / as sysdba Connected  to an idle instance. SQL> startup ASM  instance started Total  System Global Area  283930624 bytes Fixed  Size                  2153056 bytes Variable  Size             256611744 bytes ASM  Cache                  25165824 bytes ASM  diskgroups mounted SQL> exit Disconnected  from Oracle Database 11g  Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 -  64bit Production With  the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, Oracle Label Security, OLAP, Data  Mining and Real Application Testing options p630up[oracle]$exit p630up[root]#su - oracle p630up[oracle]$sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus:  Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Fri Oct  22 09:41:07 2010 Copyright  (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle.  All rights  reserved. Connected  to an idle instance. SQL> startup ORACLE  instance started. Total  System Global Area 1102344192 bytes Fixed  Size                  2152976 bytes Variable  Size             855639536 bytes Database  Buffers          234881024 bytes Redo  Buffers                9670656 bytes Database  mounted.