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

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:19:36 -0500
Message-ID: <ad3aa4c90910220819y15921ff5n5f985bf3662d72c8_at_mail.gmail.com>

I suggested 11.1.0.7 because you can probably upgrade to it without making any other changes. Going to R2 will require you to set up the SCAN, etc.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Scott Sibert <ssibert_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>
>>>> *From:* K Gopalakrishnan [mailto:kaygopal_at_gmail.com]
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:30 AM
>>>> *To:* TESTAJ3_at_nationwide.com
>>>> *Cc:* Crisler, Jon; oracle-l_at_freelists.org;
>>>> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
>>>> *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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007146509X/
>>>>
>>>> Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics &
>>>> Tuning
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> joe
>>>>
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>>>> "Crisler, Jon" <Jon.Crisler_at_usi.com>
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>>>> Date:
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>>>> 10/21/2009 11:11 AM
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>>>> Subject:
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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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>>
>> --
>> Andrew W. Kerber
>>
>> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
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