Re: RAC on Linux moving OCR and Voting disk to another SAN

From: Scott Sibert <ssibert_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:51:37 -0500
Message-ID: <9a600bbf0910220751n48baf7e6i730df872ab2fb701_at_mail.gmail.com>

And if you move to 11gR2 clusterware you can put OCR and the voting disks in an ASM diskgroup. Be aware that clusterware changed a lot between 11gR1 and R2.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> To make the process easier, you might want to upgrade to 11.1.0.7
> clusterware before you do the SAN move. Then you can move the ocr and
> voting disk online. Plus, you are ready for the next Oracle upgrade also.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:26 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Test it, a year ago we added in a customer voting disk online in 10.2.0.4
>> without any CRS bundle in Sun Solaris and OCR got corrupted
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> LSC
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Crisler, Jon <Jon.Crisler_at_usi.com>wrote:
>>
>>> We are on 10.2.0.4 on Red Hat EL 4 x64, so this might work.
>>>
>>>
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>>> *Subject:* Re: RAC on Linux moving OCR and Voting disk to another SAN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Beware, You can not move voting disk online till 10204(due to a bug!) and
>>> this requires cluster downtime (and also a -force option). However, OCR can
>>> be migrated online as you mentioned.
>>>
>>> -Gopal
>>>
>>>
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>>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007146509X/
>>>
>>> Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics &
>>> Tuning
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>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, <TESTAJ3_at_nationwide.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Thinking out loud, add/remove voting disk by using:
>>>
>>> crsctl add css votedisk <path> - adds a new voting disk
>>> crsctl delete css votedisk <path> - removes a voting disk
>>>
>>> for CRS:
>>>
>>> use ocrconfig to add the new ocr disks and remove the old ones?
>>>
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>>> RAC on Linux moving OCR and Voting disk to another SAN
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>>>
>>> We are implementing a more powerful SAN array, and need to move a 10g
>>> RAC cluster to this new storage. We know how to move the ASM storage
>>> without any downtime. However, we cannot figure out if it is possible
>>> to move the OCR and Voting disk with no downtime. Does anybody have any
>>> suggestions ?
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>
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> Andrew W. Kerber
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