Comments on: Drop an ASM Disk that contains a Voting Disk? http://uhesse.com/2012/06/13/drop-an-asm-disk-that-contains-a-voting-disk/ Explain, Exemplify, Empower Fri, 24 May 2013 01:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Uwe Hesse http://uhesse.com/2012/06/13/drop-an-asm-disk-that-contains-a-voting-disk/#comment-4511 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:04:30 +0000 http://uhesse.com/?p=1075#comment-4511 Ryan,
your first stop in case of those problems should be Oracle Support.
If you have no account there, try OTN forums like http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=62

To your question about overkill: I would consider it a Best Practice to have at least 4 drives for a diskgroup with normal redundancy that contains voting disks exactly because of this situation: One disk may fail.

Now when you have 3 disks still available, the clusterware will create a new voting disk on that drive (after the failed ASM disk was automatically dropped) and redundancy is still maintained.

Kind regards
Uwe

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