How to modify Voting disks in ASM

The process for modifying a votedisk that is stored on ASM differs from the process when the votedisk is stored on some other medium. When your voting disks are stored on ASM you can move them off to non ASM storage with the replace command: $ crsctl replace votedisk [path_to_new_votedisk] (this can be done from …

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Error ORA-15260 when attempting to issue an alter diskgroup command.

The ORA-15260 error when attempting ot issue an alter diskgroup command is a permissions issue. It will generally be because you are logged in as SYSDBA rather than SYSASM. Prior to 11gR2 you could log in and administer diskgroups with SYSDBA privileges but this changed with 11.2.   SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP DATA add disk ‘/dev/oracleasm/disks/DISK2’;ALTER …

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Using files on a shared drive as disks for ASM (on RedHat Linux)

Firstly, you need to create files padded to the required disk size. So if you want 4 1Gb files you could execute the below commands on shared storage: dd if=/dev/zero of=/SHAREDDISK/asmDisk1-1 bs=1024k count=1000 dd if=/dev/zero of=/SHAREDDISK/asmDisk1-2 bs=1024k count=1000 dd if=/dev/zero of=/SHAREDDISK/asmDisk1-3 bs=1024k count=1000 dd if=/dev/zero of=/SHAREDDISK/asmDisk1-4 bs=1024k count=1000 dd creates your file, ‘if’=/dev/zero gets null …

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