One of the new features in Clusterware 11.2.0.1 is that ocr and voting disk must be either on shared files system or in ASM, raw devices are only supported if you upgrade from one version to the other.
Whereas in 10gR2 you could make use of raw devices for voting disks and ocr, in 11g it is only allowed/supported if you upgrade, since this is clean installation we cannot go that way. In the 10.2 environment we had 3 voting disks and 2 OCR disks configured ..
Voting and ocr disks are now in ASM depending on the redundancy there are multiple copies. If you use external redundancy as we do for our datadisk and archive diskgroup, the voting disk is only stored once.
as shown here
crsctl query css votedisk## STATE File Universal Id File Name Disk group— —– —————– ——— ———1. ONLINE 55b5a82167444ff3bfa0ad1bdc8f99fb (/dev/rdsk/c6t60060E80058DA50000008DA500000007d0s0) [DATADG1]Located 1 voting disk(s).
therefore we decided to create a seperate diskgroup with a higher redundancy to store voting disks.
bash-3.00$ id
uid=101(grid) gid=101(oinstall)crsctl replace votedisk +DGQUORUM
Successful addition of voting disk 07dda8a1db214fd1bfb6e49562115215.
Successful addition of voting disk 609aab5c66b54f74bf46850dc171107f.
Successful addition of voting disk 98f7325dbdb14fefbf9c8d0bfc3f6d14.
Successful deletion of voting disk
55b5a82167444ff3bfa0ad1bdc8f99fb.
Successfully replaced voting disk group with +DGQUORUM.CRS-4266:
Voting file(s) successfully replaced–
bash-3.00$ crsctl query css votedisk
## STATE File Universal Id File Name Disk group— —– —————– ——— ———1.
ONLINE 07dda8a1db214fd1bfb6e49562115215 (/dev/rdsk/c6t60060E80058DA50000008DA50000000Bd0s5) [DGQUORUM]2. ONLINE 609aab5c66b54f74bf46850dc171107f (/dev/rdsk/c6t60060E80058DA50000008DA500000007d0s5) [DGQUORUM]ONLINE 98f7325dbdb14fefbf9c8d0bfc3f6d14 (/dev/rdsk/c6t60060E80058DA50000008DA500000009d0s5) [DGQUORUM]
Same thing for the OCR disk
this needs to be done as root …
bash-3.00# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrconfig -add +DGQUORUMbash-3.00# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrconfig -add +DGQUORUMPROT-29: The Oracle Cluster Registry location is already configuredbash-3.00# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :Version : 3Total space (kbytes) : 262120Used space (kbytes) : 2976Available space (kbytes) : 259144ID : 809788976Device/File Name : +DATADG1Device/File integrity check succeededDevice/File Name : +DGQUORUMDevice/File integrity check succeeded
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Cluster registry integrity check succeeded
Logical corruption check succeeded