Hi Raw Devices can be shared, you dont need any Cluster Volume Manager to do so. Thanks -- LSC On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Sriram Kumar <k.sriramkumar@xxxxxxxxx>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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> You store OCR and Voting Disks on RAW Devices. You dont need any third >> party cluster for this >> >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> LSC >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Sriram Kumar >> <k.sriramkumar@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >