Category: RAC, ASM & Clusterware

RAC, ASM & Clusterware

Setup VNCR in Oracle RAC

Enabling VNCR (Valid Node Checking for Registration) is a mandatory task that every DBA should do when terminates the configuration of a new database, being it a Single Instance or a Oracle RAC. In my opinion, Oracle should have already defined this option enabled by default on new releases. In times of TNS Poison (Oracle Security …

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Moving OCR and Voting Disk to Oracle ASM Online

Prior Oracle 11gR2, it was only possible to the OCR and Voting Disk files in multiple raw devices, shared between the nodes of a cluster. From this version on, it’s very interesting to take the advantages and capabilities of ASM (striping and mirror) to store those files. To store the OCR and Voting Disk files …

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