Re: Looking for recommendations on ASM

  • From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: daniel.hubler@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:38:43 -0500

I like to use a disk group for the ocr and voting files in extra redundancy
that is fairly small, then external redundancy groups for data and fra.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:57 PM, 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.
>
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