Doubts about shared disk for RAC

Hi All,
I am really new to RAC.Even after reading various documents,I still have many doubts regarding shared storage and file systems needed for RAC.
1.Clusterware has to be installed on a shared file system like OCFS2.Which type of hard drive is required to install OCFS2 so that it can be accessed from all nodes??
It has to be an external hard drive???Or we can use any simple hard disk for shared storage??
If we use external hard drive then does it need to be connected to a seperate server alltogether or can it be connected to any one of the nodes in the cluster???
Apart from this shared drives,approximately what size of hard disk is required for all nodes(for just a testing environment).
Sincerely appreciate a reply!!
Thanks in advance.

Clusterware has to be installed on shared storage. RAC also requires shared storage for the database.
Shared storage can be managed via many methods.
1. Some sites using Linux or UNIX-based OSes choose to use RAW disk devices. This method is not frequently used due to the unpleasant management overhead and long-term manageability for RAW devices.
2. Many sites use cluster filesystems. On Linux and Windows, Oracle offers OCFS2 as one (free) cluster filesystem. Other vendors also offer add-on products for some OSes that provide supported cluster filesystems (like GFS, GPFS, VxFS, and others). Supported cluster filesystems may be used for Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks) as well as database files. Check Metalink for a list of supported cluster filesystems.
3. ASM can be used to manage shared storage used for database files. Unfortunately, due to architecture decisions made by Oracle, ASM cannot currently be used for Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks). It is relatively common to see ASM used for DB files and either RAW or a cluster filesystem used for Clusterware files. In other words, ASM and cluster filesystems and RAW are not mutually exclusive.
As for hardware--I have not seen any hardware capable of easily connecting multiple servers to internal storage. So, shared storage is always (in my experience) housed externally. You can find some articles on OTN and other sites (search Google for them) that use firewire drives or a third computer running openfiler to provide the shared storage in test environments. In production environments, SAN devices are commonly employed to provide concurrent access to storage from multiple servers.
Hope this helps!
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