Re: Looking for recommendations on ASM

From: Fuad Arshad <fuadar_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:08:02 -0500
Message-Id: <76D5D13F-B4FE-43B2-A594-76A83F55378C_at_yahoo.com>

we ran into a similar situation an here is what we configured our systems aix 6.1
11.2.0.3
a vote disk group with high redundancy small disks 5 g each a data disk group with external redundancy a recover group with external redundancy these are not best practices by any means but something we felt comfortable with on aix

Fuad

On Oct 31, 2012, at 13:57, "Hubler, Daniel" <daniel.hubler_at_aurora.org> wrote:

> AIX 6.1
> Oracle 11.2.0.3
> Have been running RAC on 10g (with 3rd party software) for years.
> Now putting together our first 11g RAC with ASM.
>
> Confused about (best?) practices for ASM, diskgroups, voting disks, OCR, controlfiles. . . . .
>
> We plan to use ASM with external redundancy.
> Up until now, we thought we could get by with a single diskgroup.
>
> It appears that multiple voting disks are not allowed with external redundancy.
> Simple enough. . . .
>
> But if we want to multiplex the OCR,
> it appears that we must create another disk group.
>
> Again, simple enough.
> But it kind of implies that I would have a large disk group for my datafiles,
> and a 2nd, small, diskgroup for the OCR. . . . and nothing else.
>
> Is this common practice?
> It just seems odd to me.
>
> Thanks.
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