Hi, an explanation of how can the voting disk be accessed even though ASM is not running is available here: http://oracleinaction.com/voting-disk/ under the section "Where is voting disk stored?". A similar issue is how to access the ASM's spfile if it's stored in an ASM diskgroup itself: http://oracleinaction.com/asm-spfile-on-asm/ Regards, Jure On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:12 AM, George Leonard - Business Connexion < George.Leonard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys, > > With the launch of 11.2 or was it 11.1 CRS and ASM was consolidated into > the then new OGI stack, which included ASM now. > > This then included the placement of VOTE and OCR into ASM. > > I attended a chat way back then, at the time that explained the startup > sequence of GI and ASM and how the 2 get to the OCR and VOTE disks. > > The chicken and egg solution, considering for GI to come up it needs > access to OCR which is in ASM which waits for GI... > > I remember high level there was a process, but the exact > wording/terminology escapes me atm. > > Have a customer asking for this, does anyone have a nice write up that I > can forward to them. > > I'm bad at writing this... so hoping someone's got something good lying > around. > > Yours Sincerely > > ________________________________________ > *George Leonard* > *Oracle Engineered System Specialist* > > Mobile: +27.82 655 2466 > eMail: george.leonard@xxxxxxxxx <george.leonard@xxxxxxxxxx> > Web: http://www.bcx.com <george.leonard@xxxxxxxxxx> > > >