Voting Disk
It manages information about node membership. Each voting disk must be accessible by all nodes in the cluster. If any node is not passing heat-beat across other note or voting disk, then that node will be evicted by the Voting disk. Minimum 1 and maximum 15 copies of the voting disk is possible.
View voting disk location
To check voting disk location, run the below command:
crsctl query css votedisk
Sample Output:
$ crsctl query css votedisk ## STATE File Universal Id File Name Disk group -- ----- ----------------- --------- --------- 1. ONLINE 5d89f9b9a2d24f6cbfed2335d94877ed (/dev/oracleasm/disks/OCR_VOTE01) [OCR_VOTE] 2. ONLINE 35a0cb950d9f4fbdbfcde2a044d56567 (/dev/oracleasm/disks/OCR_VOTE02) [OCR_VOTE] 3. ONLINE a5a60eddd3074f2bbfe091f6f26413ef (/dev/oracleasm/disks/OCR_VOTE03) [OCR_VOTE]
OCR
It is created at the time of Grid Installation. It’s store information to manage Oracle cluster-ware and its component such as RAC database, listener, VIP, Scan IP & Services. Minimum 1 and maximum 5 copy of OCR is possible.
Check OCR location
Run below command to view the OCR location:
$ ocrcheck
$ ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
Version : 3
Total space (kbytes) : 262120
Used space (kbytes) : 3720
Available space (kbytes) : 258400
ID : 1001500416
Device/File Name : +OCR_VOTE
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Cluster registry integrity check succeeded
Logical corruption check bypassed due to non-privileged user
Here if you see the OCR is located on the ASM disk group “OCR_VOTE”.
Similarly you can also view the configuration file /etc/oracle/ocr.loc to get the OCR location. For example:
$ cat /etc/oracle/ocr.loc ocrconfig_loc=+OCR_VOTE local_only=FALSE
How to move the OCR location?
For Oracle RAC 10g Release 1
1. stop the CRS stack on all nodes using “init.crs stop”
2. Edit /var/opt/oracle/ocr.loc on all nodes and set up ocrconfig_loc=new OCR device
3. Restore from one of the automatic physical backups using ocrconfig -restore.
4. Run ocrcheck to verify.
5. reboot to restart the CRS stack.
For Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 or later
Please use the OCR command to replace the OCR with the new location:
# ocrconfig -replace ocr /dev/newocr # ocrconfig -replace ocrmirror /dev/newocrmirror
Manual editing of ocr.loc or equivalent is not recommended, and will not work.