we ran into a similar situation an here is what we configured our systems aix 6.1 11.2.0.3 a vote disk group with high redundancy small disks 5 g each a data disk group with external redundancy a recover group with external redundancy these are not best practices by any means but something we felt comfortable with on aix Fuad On Oct 31, 2012, at 13:57, "Hubler, Daniel" <daniel.hubler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > AIX 6.1 > Oracle 11.2.0.3 > Have been running RAC on 10g (with 3rd party software) for years. > Now putting together our first 11g RAC with ASM. > > Confused about (best?) practices for ASM, diskgroups, voting disks, OCR, > controlfiles. . . . . > > We plan to use ASM with external redundancy. > Up until now, we thought we could get by with a single diskgroup. > > It appears that multiple voting disks are not allowed with external > redundancy. > Simple enough. . . . > > But if we want to multiplex the OCR, > it appears that we must create another disk group. > > Again, simple enough. > But it kind of implies that I would have a large disk group for my datafiles, > and a 2nd, small, diskgroup for the OCR. . . . and nothing else. > > Is this common practice? > It just seems odd to me. > > Thanks. > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l