Oracle RAC add and delete Voting Disks

Oracle RAC backup and recovery Voting Disks reference:

Example of adding or deleting a voting Disk:

Environment:

[Oracle @ node2 ~] $ Uname-
Linux node2 2.6.18-164. el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:54 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

SQL> select * from v $ version;

BANNER
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Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0-Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0-Production
CORE 10.2.0.1.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0-Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0-Production

1. view the current Voting Disks and disable Oracle Clusterware

Note: to add or delete a Voting Disk, disable Oracle terterware on all nodes. Although the added-force parameter can be operated online, the cluster configuration may be damaged.

[Oracle @ node1 ~] $ Crsctl query css votedisk
0. 0/dev/raw/raw2

Located 1 votedisk (s ).

[Root @ node1 bin] #./crsctl stop crs
Stopping resources.
Successfully stopped CRS resources
Stopping CSSD.
Shutting down CSS daemon.
Shutdown request successfully issued.
[Root @ node2 bin] #./crsctl stop crs
Stopping resources.
Successfully stopped CRS resources
Stopping CSSD.
Shutting down CSS daemon.
Shutdown request successfully issued.

2. Added Voting Disk

[Root @ node1 bin] #./crsctl add css votedisk/dev/raw/raw5-force
Now formatting voting disk:/dev/raw/raw5
Successful addition of votedisk/dev/raw/raw5.

If-force is not added, the following situation occurs:

[Root @ node1 bin] #./crsctl add css votedisk/dev/raw/raw6
Cluster is not in a ready state for online disk addition

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