Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware Installation Guide for HP-UX

Configuring Storage for Oracle Clusterware Files on a Supported Shared File System
4.1.3 Quorum Disk Location Restriction with Existing 9.2 Clusterware Installations
When upgrading your Oracle9i release 9.2 Oracle RAC environment to Oracle
Database 11g release 1 (11.1), you are prompted to specify one or more voting disks
during the Oracle Clusterware installation. You must specify a new location for the
voting disk in Oracle Database 11g release 1 (11.1). You cannot reuse the old Oracle9i
release 9.2 quorum disk for this purpose.
4.1.4 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
When you have determined your disk storage options, you must perform the
following tasks in the order listed:
1: Check for available shared storage with CVU
Refer to Checking for Available Shared Storage with CVU on page 4-3
2: Configure shared storage for Oracle Clusterware files
■ To use a file system (NFS for Oracle Clusterware files), refer to Configuring
Storage for Oracle Clusterware Files on a Supported Shared File System on
page 4-3
■ To use raw devices (partitions) for Oracle Clusterware files, refer to "Configuring
Storage for Oracle Clusterware Files on Raw Devices" on page 4-6
4.2 Checking for Available Shared Storage with CVU
To check for all shared file systems available across all nodes on the cluster on a
supported shared file system, log in as the installation owner user (oracle or crs),
and use the following syntax:
/mountpoint/runcluvfy.sh comp ssa -n node_list
If you want to check the shared accessibility of a specific shared storage type to
specific nodes in your cluster, then use the following command syntax:
/mountpoint/runcluvfy.sh comp ssa -n node_list -s storageID_list
In the preceding syntax examples, the variable mountpoint is the mountpoint path of
the installation media, the variable node_list is the list of nodes you want to check,
separated by commas, and the variable storageID_list is the paths for the storage
devices that you want to check.
For example, if you want to check the shared accessibility from node1 and node2 of
storage devices /dw/dsk/c1t2d3 and /dw/dsk/c2t4d5, and your mountpoint is
/dev/dvdrom/, then enter the following command:
/dev/dvdrom/clusterware/cluvfy/runcluvfy.sh comp ssa -n node1,node2 -s
/dw/dsk/c1t2d3,/dw/dsk/c2t4d5
If you do not specify specific storage device IDs in the command, then the command
searches for all available storage devices connected to the nodes on the list
4.3 Configuring Storage for Oracle Clusterware Files on a Supported
Shared File System
Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) does not suggest a default location for the Oracle
Cluster Registry (OCR) or the Oracle Clusterware voting disk. If you choose to create
Configuring Oracle Clusterware Storage 4-3