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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 :) > > joe > > > > > From: Jeff Thomas <dbmangler@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: > 04/06/2012 > 10:36 AM Subject: 11gR2 San Migration - OCR Disk Group Sent by: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ------------------------------ > > > > 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? > > Best, > Jeff > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l