Re: CRS and Voting Disk Storage Options -- Oracle 10gR2 RAC on Sun Sparc

Raw Devices can be shared, you dont need any Cluster Volume Manager to do so.

Thanks

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Sriram Kumar <k.sriramkumar_at_gmail.com>wrote:



> Hi Cheng,

>

> Thanks for the reply. how is the OCR and voting disk information

> synchronized if it is not shared?. Pls help me understand

>

> Best regards

>

> Sriram Kumar

>

>

>

>

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:59 PM, LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> Hi

>>

>> You store OCR and Voting Disks on RAW Devices. You dont need any third

>> party cluster for this

>>

>>

>> Thanks

>>

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>> LSC

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>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Sriram Kumar <k.sriramkumar_at_gmail.com>wrote:

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>>> Hi Folks,

>>>

>>> We are planning to implement a Sun SPARC based 10g R2 cluster.

>>>

>>> I see from the oracle link

>>>

>>>

>>> http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/clustering/certify/tech_generic_unix_new.html

>>>

>>>  That following storage options

>>>

>>> 1) Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster

>>>

>>> 2) VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) with the cluster feature

>>>

>>> 3) Sun StorEdge QFS shared file system with hardware RAID support or with

>>> Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster

>>>

>>> 4) Network Appliance network-attached storage (NAS) devices

>>>

>>> 5) Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

>>>

>>> We are looking at ASM but if we choose ASM then how will the Voting Disk

>>> and CRS would be managed? Do we still need Sun Cluster for managing this

>>> alone or how do you manage it?. Thanks in advance

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> Best Regards

>>>

>>> Sriram Kumar

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>

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