If you read the OP, they're doing this on SPARC - no OCFS for Solaris. Though I am a fan of OCFS2 generally for OCR and voting. Matt -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of QuijadaReina, Julio C Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:54 AM To: oraclelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'List, Oracle-l Freelists' Subject: RE: CRS and Voting Disk Storage Options -- Oracle 10gR2 RAC on Sun Sparc If a Cluster Manager is not available (cost factor), OCFS2 is a viable option. AFAIK, ASM is not for OCR and Voting Disk, but for datafiles, control files, redo logs, spfile, and RMAN backup files. Julio Quijada -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Randy Johnson Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:37 AM To: 'List, Oracle-l Freelists' Subject: RE: CRS and Voting Disk Storage Options -- Oracle 10gR2 RAC on Sun Sparc OCFS2 instead of ASM....not my preference but okay. OCFS2 for the OCR & Voting disks? You can do this but why would you want to? -Randy Johnson -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of QuijadaReina, Julio C Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:28 AM To: List, Oracle-l Freelists Cc: k.sriramkumar@xxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: CRS and Voting Disk Storage Options -- Oracle 10gR2 RAC on Sun Sparc Have looked into using OCFS2? Julio Quijada From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sriram Kumar Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:19 AM To: List, Oracle-l Freelists Subject: CRS and Voting Disk Storage Options -- Oracle 10gR2 RAC on Sun Sparc 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_g eneric_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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4199 (20090630) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4199 (20090630) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4199 (20090630) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l