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Oracle Vote & OCR Disk Migration to New Storage

Oracle Vote & OCR Disk Migration to New Storage

Vote Disk Migration

Prepare the new disks to be used as vote disk by Operating System command/tools. Procedure to configure new disks on AIX system is listed on my blog "Configure Oracle ASM Disks on AIX"

Shutdown the Oracle Clusterware (crsctl stop crs as root) on all nodes before making any modification to the voting disk. 

Determine the current voting disk location using. Issue the commands as root user.

# crsctl query css votedisk

You would need to shutdown the Clusterware to replace voting disk

# crsctl stop crs

Add the New voting Disk

# crsctl add css votedisk '/dev/ora_vote3' -force

Delete the voting disk on old storage.

# crsctl delete css votedisk '/dev/ora_vote1' –force

Start the Clusterware

# crsctl start crs

Verify that new voting disks are added:

# crsctl query css votedisk


OCR Migration

Issue the following commands as root user.

Identify the current ocr devices. 

# ocrcheck

To replace an OCR mirror device, provide the full path including file name.

# ocrconfig -replace ocrmirror /dev/ora-ocr4

To replace OCR use the following command

# ocrconfig -replace ocr /dev/ora-ocr3



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