Re: 11gR2 San Migration - OCR Disk Group

From: Jeff Thomas <dbmangler_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:07:45 -0400
Message-ID: <CAAVEUKH5Jn6W+t5gT=iC_RQawenHM=ue4ZLefW4LfThQ1eq4oA_at_mail.gmail.com>



Thanks for the reply Joe - but we never did go to 11gR1 so I was not aware if it required or allowed the OCR/voting files/ASM spfile to be stored inside an ASM diskgroup.
I thought it was more like 10gR2 RAC where these files were contained in raw devices.
Best,
Jeff

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:40 AM, <TESTAJ3_at_nationwide.com> wrote:

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> Yes and yes at least from the 11.1 side. We add the new OCR/voting disks,
> add /drop the asm disks in 1 command and presto, we're on the new san :)
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> joe
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> From: Jeff Thomas <dbmangler_at_gmail.com> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org Date: 04/06/2012
> 10:36 AM Subject: 11gR2 San Migration - OCR Disk Group Sent by:
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> Running 11.2.0.2.5 RAC on Linux x86. We are migrating to a new SAN.
> With respect to the OCR diskgroup, which is defined with 3 disks with
> normal redundancy, I do know how to migrate the OCR/voting files/ASM
> spfile to a new OCR diskgroup if need be.
> What I wonder if anyone has migrated the OCR diskgroup by simply adding the
> new disks and dropping the old ones? Is Oracle smart enough
> to copy the 3 voting files over to the new disks, so that's there no outage
> whatsoever when migrating to the new SAN?
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> Best,
> Jeff
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