Re: OGI/ASM startup sequence wrt OCR and VOTE access

This is (I thought) a pretty good explanation of what you are looking for...

http://blog.trivadis.com/b/robertbialek/archive/2012/07/04/oracle-asm-spfile-stored-in-an-asm-disk-group-how-it-works.aspx and
http://aychin.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/oracle-11gr2-asm-spfile-eng/

Thanks,

--Rajesh

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Jure Bratina <jure.bratina_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> an explanation of how can the voting disk be accessed even though ASM is
> not running is available here: http://oracleinaction.com/voting-disk/under the section "Where is voting disk stored?". A similar issue is how to
> access the ASM's spfile if it's stored in an ASM diskgroup itself:
> http://oracleinaction.com/asm-spfile-on-asm/
>
> Regards,
> Jure
>
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:12 AM, George Leonard - Business Connexion <
> George.Leonard_at_bcx.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> With the launch of 11.2 or was it 11.1 CRS and ASM was consolidated
>> into the then new OGI stack, which included ASM now.
>>
>> This then included the placement of VOTE and OCR into ASM.
>>
>> I attended a chat way back then, at the time that explained the startup
>> sequence of GI and ASM and how the 2 get to the OCR and VOTE disks.
>>
>> The chicken and egg solution, considering for GI to come up it needs
>> access to OCR which is in ASM which waits for GI...
>>
>> I remember high level there was a process, but the exact
>> wording/terminology escapes me atm.
>>
>> Have a customer asking for this, does anyone have a nice write up that
>> I can forward to them.
>>
>> I'm bad at writing this... so hoping someone's got something good lying
>> around.
>>
>> Yours Sincerely
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> *George Leonard*
>> *Oracle Engineered System Specialist*
>>
>> Mobile: +27.82 655 2466
>> eMail: george.leonard_at_bcx.co.za <george.leonard_at_oracle.com>
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>>
>>
>>
>

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