Hi Chris Can you please call out the page number in the 11gR2 linux installation guide ? However, you would need 3 disks of 1.5G for clusterware (diskgroup for ocr, voting disks etc) and another disk group for everything else(2+ disks in the disk group for normal redundancy). You might create a third disk group for FRA and so on. Also, minimal installation can be done with just one disk group too, probably, not a preferred solution for a production environment. Cheers Riyaj Shamsudeen Principal DBA, Ora!nternals - http://www.orainternals.com - Specialists in Performance, RAC and EBS Blog: http://orainternals.wordpress.com/ Oracle ACE Director and OakTable member <http://www.oaktable.com/> Co-author of the books: Expert Oracle Practices<http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-oracle-practices/> , Pro Oracle SQL, <http://tinyurl.com/ahpvms8> <http://tinyurl.com/ahpvms8>Expert RAC Practices 12c. <http://tinyurl.com/expert-rac-12c> Expert PL/SQL practices <http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-plsql-practices> <http://tinyurl.com/book-expert-plsql-practices> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Chris King <ckaj111@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > or more specifically... would the "additional disk space for ASM metadata" > be on 3 separate disks or be part of the database storage disks? > > > > > On Friday, March 14, 2014 1:44:25 PM, Chris King <ckaj111@xxxxxxxx> > wrote: > Happy PI Day, everyone! > I'm going thru Grid/RAC setup for the first time. Finding the manual > confusing when it explains how to set up storage. > > This is 11gR2 on linux. The install guide indicates I will need: > > assuming for normal redundancy > > minimum 3 disks of 1.5GB each for Clusterware > minimum 2 disks 9GB each for database storage > and additional disk space for ASM metadata -- at least 3 disks of 2GB each. > > Putting it all together -- Does this mean I need 8 disks minimum? or would > some of these normally be combined? > > Thank you in advance! > > >