Re: powerpath, 11gr2, and ASM on sun Sparc

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:13:02 -0600
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=c1WQO+x12bV-UEqzebqvXpf9zxZfuRSABzPHH_at_mail.gmail.com>

I mean until we somehow got our ASM header overwritten or corrupted, this was 11gR2.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Harel Safra <harel.safra_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Up to 11.1 (including) you needed the voting disks and OCR disks to be the
> same. In 11.2 you can store them in ASM so that's not needed. I've run many
> Linux servers with 10g RAC on them that only had the voting/OCR identical
> and the data disks different. I've also installed 11.2 cluster with no
> regard to disk order.
>
> What do you mean by "until we got asm headers stepped on"?
>
> Harel Safra
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thats what I always thought too until we got asm headers stepped on.
>> There are also many notes about how to map the drives using multipath so
>> they show up in the same spot on both nodes. Just not much on Powerpath.
>> So I suspect this business of reading the headers doesn't always work for
>> some reason.
>>
>>

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