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 Changing disk paths in RAC & ASM [message #560525] |
Fri, 13 July 2012 19:17  |
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gwatts
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Registered: July 2012
Location: UK
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Hi,
Need some advise. We are about to undertake a storage migration of our RAC environemnt from EMC to XIV storage.
The migration method we are using means that we will be presented with identical disks post the migration, however the UNIX paths to the disk devices will be changing. Using our migration method it is not possible to present the old and new devices at the same time.
Therefore once the migration is complete i need to update the device configuration to reflect the new paths
I believe this is done using the following techniques but I am unsure as some of the documentation is ambiguous and I have not done this before
Changing path to Voting Disks
crsctl add css votedisk <new_path_to_disk> -force
crsctl delete css votedisk <old_path_to_disk> -force
Changing path to OCR Disks
ocrconfig repair ocr <new_path_to_ocr>
ocrconfig repair ocrmirror <new_path_to_ocrmirror>
Changing paths to ASM disks
alter system set asm_diskstring='<new_device_path>' scope=both;
Any advise on the above greatly appreciated - I appreciate there are other steps (such as ensuring correct permissions on device files and making sure cluster services stopped) - but just wanted opinion on high level process
[EDITED by LF: removed superfluous empty lines]
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| Re: Changing disk paths in RAC & ASM [message #560554 is a reply to message #560551] |
Sat, 14 July 2012 07:55  |
John Watson
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Registered: January 2010
Location: Global Village
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I don't understand. If you have new discs, you no longer have vote files or OCR. You can't just re-create them (well, you can, but that is a non-trivial task) you have to restore. I think your technique can function only if original and new devices are concurrently visible.
And btw, I think you may need to up date your ocr.loc file before doing anything.
But really, you have to update your clusterware. You will get virtually no support for 10.2, it is seriously unstable compared to the current release, and you will never have a better opportunity to upgrade. I cannot imagine a business case for not doing it.
Good luck (you might need it!) with whatever method you decide upon.
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