We saw with the OCR and voting raw disks that we had to create a common device special filename (alias) that mapped to the multiple paths to the disks.
/dev/rdsk/ocr
/dev/rdsk/voting
It was all because of the HP Autopaths and virtual storage platform (EVA8000). Oracle Installer only allows entry of one path to the OCR and voting disks. Therefore, we had to create the special filenames in order to use OUI. mksf is the command. See HP portion in Note: 293819.1
We are now wondering about the creation of the ASM disk groups. Will HP autopathing cause us a problem? We should know soon.
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Yes, autopath caused us problems in the ASM creation. The HP multi-pathing package "autopath" provides several paths to the ASM disks. Therefore, when we changed the owner and group from bin:sys to oracle:dba on all of the paths Oracle freaked out (technical term).
Now we didn't have to do any make special file names this time. Thank God.
We only had to change one of the paths to the ASM disks to oracle:dba and keep the rest of them bin:sys.
See Oracle MetaLink note 294869.1
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