Correct steps to reload ASM disks into a running ASM instance on Linux RHEL

Hi guys,
i hope this is the correct forum, awfully i did not found any document specifically talking abou this.
first of all let me explain quickly my goal: in my server (it contains the same data of 3 production RACs for reporting purposes) i would like to shutdown a single instance (i have 3) and realod his disks to refresh the data or because for some reason its mount into ASM is failed.
this is a mix of Oracle ASM and Linux stuff...
on this server there is a shell script that perform the following steps:
1) shutdown 3 instances of 11g (11.2.0.2.0 with patch for asm already installed for bug... dont remember)
2) shutdown ASM instance
3) stop ASMLIB
4) stop multipathd
5) remove all disks devices from linux
6) take a snapshot on the 3 production RACs
7) remap the disks to this server (SAN stuff)
8) rescan the disks
9) start ASMLIB
10) start ASM instance
11) mount the DiskGroups
12) start 3 oracle instances
this works fine... my problem is when i try to refresh the disks of just 1 of the 3 instances, i perform the following steps:
1) stop instance ABC
2) dismount ABC diskgroups related to ABC instance
3) wait 5 seconds (dont ask... if idid it without ASM still have the disks locked)
4) delete the ASMLIB disks (oracleasm deletedisk XYZ) relate to such diskgroups
5) remove mpaths related to the disks that need to be refreshed or correctly mounted oneagain
6) remove devices
7) unmap disks on SAN
8) take snapshot (clone disks)
9) map disks from SAN
10) delete bindings file
11) rescan devices
12) execute multipath command (to rebuild bindings file)
13) execute oracleasm scandisks
14) mount DiskGroups
15) start instance ABC
actually i dont understand why the OS (or specifically ASMLIB) do not recognize me anymore one of the ASMLIB disk
do you have any idea ? or im completly crazy doing that ?
best regards,
Luca

Hi,
well this step
4) delete the ASMLIB disks (oracleasm deletedisk XYZ) relate to such diskgroups
is not good. Because it will clear the ASM Header and as a result ASM will never again be able to detect the disks.
So it is clear that "scnadisks" later will not see the disks, because you wiped them.
Worse: You did the snapshot after deleting them... this gets tricky to get them "repaired" again.
However there is the possibility to relabel a dropped ASM disks. You need to open an SR for this, since the procedure to restore the lost ASM header is not that simple..
Regards
Sebastian

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    Ben

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    >
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    DB

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    brw-rw---- 1 grid oinstall 120, 816 Jul 26 21:18 emcpoweraz
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    INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpowerat grid oinstall
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    INFO: Parsing 40960 CANDIDATE /dev/emcpoweray grid oinstall
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    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
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    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
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    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
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    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
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    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
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    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
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    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
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    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 42
    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 12247695
    INFO: Parsing Additional information: 1598903119
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    INFO: Terminated all background operations
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    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 471 Jul 22 2011 51-hotplug.rules
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    # *** OL 6.2 system below
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    total 64
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    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 320 Jul 2 2010 90-alsa.rules
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1060 Jul 24 2010 60-pcmcia.rules
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    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 706 Mar 29 2011 56-hpmud_support.rules
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    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 53 Dec 7 2011 91-drm-modeset.rules
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