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Re: 10gR2 RAC: Mirroring OCR and voting disks

From: Andreas Sheriff <spamcontrol_at_iion.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:35:05 -0700
Message-ID: <s2tjg.13352$KB.12940@fed1read08>


"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1150127574.321184_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com...
> Andreas Sheriff wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> System:
>> 10.2.0.2.0
>> RHEL4
>> 2 node rac
>> Two individual iSCSI storage arrays connected via HBA.
>>
>> I've perused the documentation but I can't find any mention of what I
>> need.
>>
>> As you know, or may not know, with 10.2 you Oracle now mirror the OCR ( 2
>> copies ) and voting disks (VD) (at least 3 copies to be effective).
>>
>> Testing shows that if even one of the OCR / VD mirrors becomes lost
>> (plugging out one of the arrays) the node loosing the mirror restarts,
>> and in my case, both nodes restart.
>>
>> Is this so? Is it stated in the documentation?
>
> Is what so? Both nodes should not restart ... only one ... which has
> been my experience with 10.2.0.1 on RedHat AS 4.0 Update 2 using a
> NetApp 920 NFS mounted NAS.
>
> What interests me is your comment about two iSCSI arrays. Could you be
> more explicit with respect to how each node is seeing each array and
> where the OCR and Vote copies are stored and what you are disconnecting.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
> www.psoug.org

I figured it out. Two of the three votedisks have to survive.

-- 
Andreas
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