Normal redundancy for voting files

Hey, currently I configured normal redundancy for my ocr and voting disks.
crsctl query css votedisk is showin orcl:ocr1, orcl:ocr2, orcl:ocr4 as configured disks.
All disks resides on the same storage but in two different aggegrates - two raid groups.
Does it makes sense to put one voting file on a seperat nfs share ?
Just in case, one raid group is malfunctiong. I know, in case the storage is powered off, the cluster will die.

Hi,
I never heard about raid group is malfunctiong by itself (except when somebody makes a mess on RAID).
RAID System (storage) is designed to support failures, you can choose the RAID level as needed. Raid is a feature of STORAGE the manufacturer of the storage must ensure that it will work. If it is proven that the issue of data loss was caused by failure of storage (bug) you can sue the manufacturer.
I believe that the data (database) are on the same storage. right? If you have only two raid and one fails you will lose a part of your environment (e.g database, etc.). So NFS option is useless if it can't provide high availability.
If you have more than 2 raid group you can use the other raid group instead of NFS, is more easy NFS fail than RAID fail. (but it's your choice)
Regards,
Levi Pereira

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Hi,
Oracle recommended for OCR files and VOTE file/disks ASM redundancy is HIGH with 5 way.
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QUORUM disks, or disks in quorum failure groups, cannot contain any database files,
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Hi Sami,
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Restoring OCR... http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/rac.102/b14197/votocr.htm#i1016682
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Backing Up and recover Voting Disks http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/rac.102/b14197/votocr.htm#BABDJDHI
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Hi, would this the way to replace my diskgroup
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Looks complicated, I would suggest have a read http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/rac.112/e16794/votocr.htm#CWADD91099
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Hello All!
I would like to know your experiences using ocfs or raw devices for clusterware files & voting disks in a RAC enviroment. Which do you think is better?, what are the advantages that you experienced using them,disadvantage, issues,etc.
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Raw Devices
Linux provides raw device access with a pseudo filesystem which presents a file-like
interface to read and write actual disk partitions. Normally reads and writes to files
go through the Linux filesystem buffer cache; however, raw device IO bypasses the
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/pdf/Linux-FS-Performance-Comparison.pdf
performance??? ... i think ... not different
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It depends on your design;)
if you have plan to share ORACLE_HOME... use ocfs2 and then you can share OCR + VOTE on OCFS.
if you have plan to use ASM... I think you don't need to use OCFS, you can make OCR + VOTE on raw devices.
By the way... if you use ASM and you don't want to perform on ocfs2 ... use raw ...
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Platform: Oracle Linux
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e18951/asmdiskgrps.htm#OSTMG13711
Question1.
We use Enterprise class storage from Hitachi Data Systems called VSP for our diskgroup LUNs. They provided frame(hardware) level RAID protection. Hitachi SAN admins confirmed that the LUNs they allocate are created our disks from different failure groups. In this case , do we need to use High or Normal redundancy ?
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Thanks. Billy.
It looks like +OCR_VOTE diskgroup is a special case in which
the number of disks for Normal redundancy is 3
the number of disks for Hig redundancy is 5
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INS-30510 Insufficient Number of ASM disk selected
Action: For a disk group with redundancy level 'High', at least '5' disks are recommended.
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Confirmed from ML Note ID:428681.1
For Voting disks (never use even number of voting disks):
External redundancy requires minimum of 1 voting disk (or 1 failure group)
Normal redundancy requires minimum of 3 voting disks (or 3 failure group)
High redundancy requires minimum of 5 voting disks (or 5 failure group)
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2014.05.23 07:57:34 Starting the Spooling Cycle
2014.05.23 07:57:34 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl ---)
2014.05.23 07:57:34 MAPI XP Call: FlushQueues, hr = 0x00000000, ulFlushFlags = 0x0000001a
2014.05.23 07:57:34 Sending one message
2014.05.23 07:57:34 Progress: Sending message 'TP - Hold PE Call ' (size 6.00 KBytes)
2014.05.23 07:57:34 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl act)
2014.05.23 07:57:34 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl ---)
2014.05.23 07:57:34 MAPI XP Call: SubmitMessage, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:57:34 MAPI XP Call: EndMessage, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:57:34 FINISHED MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 07:57:34 [email protected]: ReportStatus: RSF_COMPLETED, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:57:34 [email protected]: Synch operation completed
2014.05.23 07:57:34 Sending done, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:57:34 Sending done, Error code = 0x8004010f
2014.05.23 07:57:34 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 07:57:34 Finishing the Spooling Cycle, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:58:58 [email protected]: Synch operation started (flags = 00000001)
2014.05.23 07:58:58 [email protected]: UploadItems: 1 messages to send
2014.05.23 07:58:58 EXECUTING Put MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 07:58:58 Starting the Spooling Cycle
2014.05.23 07:58:58 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl ---)
2014.05.23 07:58:58 MAPI XP Call: FlushQueues, hr = 0x00000000, ulFlushFlags = 0x0000001a
2014.05.23 07:58:58 Sending one message
2014.05.23 07:58:58 Progress: Sending message 'TP - Hold PE Call' (size 6.00 KBytes)
2014.05.23 07:58:58 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl act)
2014.05.23 07:58:58 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl ---)
2014.05.23 07:58:58 MAPI XP Call: SubmitMessage, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:58:58 MAPI XP Call: EndMessage, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:58:58 FINISHED MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 07:58:58 [email protected]: ReportStatus: RSF_COMPLETED, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:58:58 [email protected]: Synch operation completed
2014.05.23 07:58:58 Sending done, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 07:58:58 Sending done, Error code = 0x8004010f
2014.05.23 07:58:58 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 07:58:58 Finishing the Spooling Cycle, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:12 [email protected]: Synch operation started (flags = 00000001)
2014.05.23 08:03:12 [email protected]: UploadItems: 1 messages to send
2014.05.23 08:03:12 EXECUTING Put MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:03:12 Starting the Spooling Cycle
2014.05.23 08:03:12 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl ---)
2014.05.23 08:03:12 MAPI XP Call: FlushQueues, hr = 0x00000000, ulFlushFlags = 0x0000001a
2014.05.23 08:03:12 Sending one message
2014.05.23 08:03:12 Progress: Sending message 'Accepted: TP - Hold PE Call' (size 5.70 KBytes)
2014.05.23 08:03:12 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl act)
2014.05.23 08:03:12 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl ---)
2014.05.23 08:03:12 MAPI XP Call: SubmitMessage, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:12 MAPI XP Call: EndMessage, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:12 FINISHED MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:03:12 [email protected]: ReportStatus: RSF_COMPLETED, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:12 [email protected]: Synch operation completed
2014.05.23 08:03:12 Sending done, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:12 Sending done, Error code = 0x8004010f
2014.05.23 08:03:12 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:03:12 Finishing the Spooling Cycle, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:16 [email protected]: Synch operation started (flags = 00000001)
2014.05.23 08:03:16 [email protected]: UploadItems: 1 messages to send
2014.05.23 08:03:16 EXECUTING Put MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:03:17 Starting the Spooling Cycle
2014.05.23 08:03:17 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl ---)
2014.05.23 08:03:17 MAPI XP Call: FlushQueues, hr = 0x00000000, ulFlushFlags = 0x0000001a
2014.05.23 08:03:17 Sending one message
2014.05.23 08:03:17 Progress: Sending message 'Accepted: TP - Hold PE Call ' (size 5.70 KBytes)
2014.05.23 08:03:17 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl act)
2014.05.23 08:03:17 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT fl ---)
2014.05.23 08:03:17 MAPI XP Call: SubmitMessage, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:17 MAPI XP Call: EndMessage, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:17 FINISHED MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:03:17 [email protected]: ReportStatus: RSF_COMPLETED, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:17 [email protected]: Synch operation completed
2014.05.23 08:03:17 Sending done, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:03:17 Sending done, Error code = 0x8004010f
2014.05.23 08:03:17 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:03:17 Finishing the Spooling Cycle, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:08 [email protected]: Synch operation started (flags = 00000031)
2014.05.23 08:04:08 [email protected]: StartImport(flags = 00000000, max msg = ffffffff): full items
2014.05.23 08:04:08 [email protected]: UploadItems: 0 messages to send
2014.05.23 08:04:08 [email protected]: Synch operation started (flags = 00000031)
2014.05.23 08:04:08 [email protected]: StartImport(flags = 00000000, max msg = ffffffff): full items
2014.05.23 08:04:08 [email protected]: UploadItems: 0 messages to send
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Starting the Spooling Cycle
2014.05.23 08:04:08 MAPI Status: (IN fl ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:04:08 MAPI XP Call: FlushQueues, hr = 0x00000000, ulFlushFlags = 0x0000001c
2014.05.23 08:04:08 MAPI XP Call: Poll, hr = 0x00000000, cPollCount = 636
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Progress: Receiving message (message 1 out of 637, size unknown)
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Downloading one message
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Transport tightly coupled with store, download is NOOP
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Downloading done, Error code = 0x8004010f
2014.05.23 08:04:08 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:04:08 FINISHED MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:04:08 [email protected]: ReportStatus: RSF_COMPLETED, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Finishing the Spooling Cycle, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Starting the Spooling Cycle
2014.05.23 08:04:08 MAPI Status: (IN fl ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:04:08 MAPI XP Call: FlushQueues, hr = 0x00000000, ulFlushFlags = 0x0000001c
2014.05.23 08:04:08 MAPI XP Call: Poll, hr = 0x00000000, cPollCount = 706
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Progress: Receiving message (message 1 out of 707, size unknown)
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Downloading one message
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Transport tightly coupled with store, download is NOOP
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Downloading done, Error code = 0x8004010f
2014.05.23 08:04:08 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:04:08 FINISHED MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:04:08 [email protected]: ReportStatus: RSF_COMPLETED, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:08 Finishing the Spooling Cycle, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:08 EXECUTING EndSession MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Starting the Simplified Transfer Cycle
2014.05.23 08:04:09 MAPI XP Call: Poll, hr = 0x00000000, iMsgsReceived = 0, cPollCount = 636
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Progress: Receiving message (message 1 out of 637, size unknown)
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Downloading one message
2014.05.23 08:04:09 MAPI Status: (IN -- act/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:04:09 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Downloading done, Error code = 0x8004010f
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Finishing the Spooling Cycle, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:09 FINISHED MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:04:09 [email protected]: ReportStatus: RSF_COMPLETED, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:09 [email protected]: Synch operation completed
2014.05.23 08:04:09 EXECUTING EndSession MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Starting the Simplified Transfer Cycle
2014.05.23 08:04:09 MAPI XP Call: Poll, hr = 0x00000000, iMsgsReceived = 0, cPollCount = 706
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Progress: Receiving message (message 1 out of 707, size unknown)
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Downloading one message
2014.05.23 08:04:09 MAPI Status: (IN -- act/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:04:09 MAPI Status: (IN -- ---/OUT -- ---)
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Downloading done, Error code = 0x8004010f
2014.05.23 08:04:09 Finishing the Spooling Cycle, Error code = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:09 FINISHED MAPI TASK
2014.05.23 08:04:09 [email protected]: ReportStatus: RSF_COMPLETED, hr = 0x00000000
2014.05.23 08:04:09 [email protected]: Synch operation completed
They are using a CRM client 2011 (Server is CRM 2011 - on premise) as well as having other connected email accounts - managed accounts, like Accounting or HR, etc.
What can I look for / provide for you all to assist? I am almost ready to open a ticket with Microsoft to resolve this as it has been happening for multiple users for multiple weeks.
When "I" go in, logged on as myself, I do NOT have this problem, however my account is not "old" in that I just logged onto the account domain\matthew.carter, where these users use their accounts day in and day out for weeks / months
/ (some years).
Thank you!

Did you post this in the SharePoint Section? Did you find a resolution for this?
We are experiencing the same issue and have yet to find anything to resolve this issue.
Regards, Daniel
I ended up scouring his old posts looking for the other thread, and he did open one in the SharePoint forum:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/3dded85b-73ee-47dc-9609-6ee65f329983/outlook-the-path-specified-for-the-file-sharepoint-lists-pst-is-not-valid?forum=sharepointadminprevious#3dded85b-73ee-47dc-9609-6ee65f329983
Unfortunately, what was marked as an "answer" by the moderators isn't really an answer at all to the problem. We are experiencing pretty much an identical issue with a calendar people are adding to Outlook 2010 from SharePoint 2010 within a XenApp
server (using roaming profiles). However, we have not had the issue occur outside of XenApp yet.

11.2.0.3 grid installation fails while selecting OCFS2 for ocr files

We are installing 11GR2 (11.2.0.3) cluster on a 64 bit system. we have OCFS2 filesystem for shared devices. version 1.6.3.
While selecting ocr file locations , we get the following error
[INS-41321] Invalid oracle cluster register [OCR] Location
Cause- The installer detects that the storage type of location is not supported for Oracle Cluster registery
Action - Provide a supported storage location for the Oracle Cluster Registry
Additional information
/crp2db01/OCR/ocr_1 is not shared
However , this mountpoint is shared across both the nodes.
Note: 11201 grid installation was successful and it accepted the above locations for OCR. however ,we need 11.2.0.3 cluster for 11.2.0.3 database

As for your current problem, just because Oracle "allows" OCFS2 in a GRID environment, I would never suggest nor implement that. It adds a layer of complexity that is totally unnecessary when a GRID/ASM implementation performs circles around OCFS2. ASM is much easier to manage, maintain, expand and shrink than OCFS2. Especially at version 11.2.0.3. When working at a large telco a few years ago, we had a 300TB+ ASM environment. OCFS2 could not even begin to be that big. ASM will provide you a MUCH more stable environment than OCFS2. And with ASM there is a lot of "magic" that happens with OCR/Voting that makes your life MUCH easier. If you "require" shared application files, then use ASM/ACFS. It is a much better "volume manager" than OCFS2.
Since you must present devices to the system for OCFS2, you should not have any problems doing the same for ASM. (and don't use ASMLib as it is going away and is not necessary - just make sure you use a partition that skips the first 1M (usually cylinder 1) and you should be good to go!)
I also would not use a "shared ORACLE_HOME" on either ACFS or OCFS2. The biggest reason is that you lose the ability to do a "rolling" upgrade and when you have a VLC, that becomes much more important that saving a few GB worth of storage.
I would also pay attention to this:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e22489/storage.htm#CDEDAHGB
3.1.4.2 General Storage Considerations for Oracle RAC
Use the following guidelines when choosing the storage options to use for each file type:
You can choose any combination of the supported storage options for each file type provided that you satisfy all requirements listed for the chosen storage options.
If you plan to install an Oracle RAC home on a shared OCFS2 location, then you must upgrade OCFS2 to at least version 1.4.1, which supports shared writable mmaps.
Oracle recommends that you choose Oracle ASM as the storage option for database and recovery files.
For Standard Edition Oracle RAC installations, Oracle ASM is the only supported storage option for database or recovery files.

Golden Gate for flat file

hi,
I have tried with GoldenGate for Oracle/ non-Oracle databases. Now, I am trying for flat file.
What i have done so far:
1. I have downloaded Oracle "GoldenGate Application Adapters 11.1.1.0.0 for JMS and Flat File Media Pack"
2. Kept it on the same machine where Database and GG manager process exists. Port for GG mgr process 7809, flat file 7816
3. Following doc GG flat file administrators guide Page 9 --> configuration
4. Extract process on GG manager process_
edit params FFE711*
extract ffe711
userid ggs@bidb, password ggs12345
discardfile E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirrpt\EXTFF.dsc, purge
rmthost 10.180.182.77, mgrport 7816
rmtfile E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirdat\ffremote, purge, megabytes 5
add extract FFE711, EXTTRAILSOURCE ./dirdat/oo*
add rmttrail ./dirdat/pp, extract FFE711, megabytes 20*
start extract FFE711*
view report ffe711*
Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle
Version 11.1.1.1 OGGCORE_11.1.1_PLATFORMS_110421.2040
Windows (optimized), Oracle 11g on Apr 22 2011 03:28:23
Copyright (C) 1995, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Starting at 2011-11-07 18:24:19
Operating System Version:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, on x86
Version 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
Process id: 4628
Description:
** Running with the following parameters **
extract ffe711
userid ggs@bidb, password ********
discardfile E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirrpt\EXTFF.dsc, purge
rmthost 10.180.182.77, mgrport 7816
rmtfile E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirdat\ffremote, purge, megabytes 5
CACHEMGR virtual memory values (may have been adjusted)
CACHEBUFFERSIZE: 64K
CACHESIZE: 1G
CACHEBUFFERSIZE (soft max): 4M
CACHEPAGEOUTSIZE (normal): 4M
PROCESS VM AVAIL FROM OS (min): 1.77G
CACHESIZEMAX (strict force to disk): 1.57G
Database Version:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
CORE 11.1.0.7.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
Database Language and Character Set:
NLS_LANG environment variable specified has invalid format, default value will b
e used.
NLS_LANG environment variable not set, using default value AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7A
SCII.
NLS_LANGUAGE = "AMERICAN"
NLS_TERRITORY = "AMERICA"
NLS_CHARACTERSET = "AL32UTF8"
Warning: your NLS_LANG setting does not match database server language setting.
Please refer to user manual for more information.
2011-11-07 18:24:25 INFO OGG-01226 Socket buffer size set to 27985 (flush s
ize 27985).
2011-11-07 18:24:25 INFO OGG-01052 No recovery is required for target file
E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirdat\ffremote, at RBA 0 (file not opened).
2011-11-07 18:24:25 INFO OGG-01478 Output file E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V2
6071-01\dirdat\ffremote is using format RELEASE 10.4/11.1.
** Run Time Messages **
5. on Flat file GGSCI prompt-->_*
edit params FFR711*
extract ffr711
CUSEREXIT E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\GGFlatFile\V22262-01\flatfilewriter.dll CUSEREXIT passthru includeupdatebefores, params "E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\GGFlatFile\V22262-01\sample-dirprm\ffwriter.properties"
SOURCEDEFS E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirdef\vikstkFF.def
table ggs.vikstk;
add extract ffr711, exttrailsource ./dirdat/pp*
start extract ffr711*
view report ffr711*
Oracle GoldenGate Capture
Version 11.1.1.0.0 Build 078
Windows (optimized), Generic on Jul 28 2010 19:05:07
Copyright (C) 1995, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Starting at 2011-11-07 18:21:31
Operating System Version:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, on x86
Version 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
Process id: 5008
Description:
** Running with the following parameters **
extract ffr711
CUSEREXIT E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\GGFlatFile\V22262-01\flatfilewriter.dll CUSE
REXIT passthru includeupdatebefores, params "E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\GGFlatFil
e\V22262-01\sample-dirprm\ffwriter.properties"
E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\GGFlatFile\V22262-01\ggs_Windows_x86_Generic_32bit_v11
_1_1_0_0_078\extract.exe running with user exit library E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPac
k\GGFlatFile\V22262-01\flatfilewriter.dll, compatiblity level (2) is current.
SOURCEDEFS E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirdef\vikstkFF.def
table ggs.vikstk;
CACHEMGR virtual memory values (may have been adjusted)
CACHEBUFFERSIZE: 64K
CACHESIZE: 1G
CACHEBUFFERSIZE (soft max): 4M
CACHEPAGEOUTSIZE (normal): 4M
PROCESS VM AVAIL FROM OS (min): 1.87G
CACHESIZEMAX (strict force to disk): 1.64G
Started Oracle GoldenGate for Flat File
Version 11.1.1.0.0
** Run Time Messages **
Problem I am facing_
I am not sure where to find the generated flat file,
even the reports are showing there is no data at manager process
I am expecting replicat instead of extract at Flatfile FFR711.prm
I have done this much what to do give me some pointers.....
Thanks,
Vikas

Ok, I haven't run your example, but here are some suggestions.
Vikas Panwar wrote:
extract ffe711
userid ggs@bidb, password ggs12345
discardfile E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirrpt\EXTFF.dsc, purge
rmthost 10.180.182.77, mgrport 7816
rmtfile E:\GoldenGate11gMediaPack\V26071-01\dirdat\ffremote, purge, megabytes 5
ggsci> add extract FFE711, EXTTRAILSOURCE ./dirdat/oo
ggsci> add rmttrail ./dirdat/pp, extract FFE711, megabytes 20
ggsci> start extract FFE711
You of course need data captured from somewhere to test with. You could capture changes directly from a database and write those to a trail, and use that as a source for the flat-file writer; or, if you have existing trail data, you can just use that (I often test with old trails, with known data).
In your example, you are using a data pump that is doing nothing more than pumping trails to a remote host. That's fine, if that's what you want to do. (It's actually quite common in real implementations.) But if you want to actually capture changes from the database, then change "add extract ... extTrailSource" to be "add extract ... tranlog". I'll assume you want to use the simple data pump to send trail data to the remote host. And I will assume that some other database capture process is creating the trail dirdat/oo
Also... with your pump "FFE711", you can create either a local or remote trial, that's fine. But don't use a rmtfile (or extfile). You should create a trail, either a "rmttrail" or "exttrail". The flat-file adapter will read that (binary) trail, and generate text files. Trails automatically roll-over, the "extfile/rmtfile" do not (but they do have the same internal GG binary log format). (You can use a 'maxfiles' to force them to rollover, but that's beside the point.)
Also, <ul>
<li> don't forget your "table" statements... or else no data will be processed!! You can wildcard tables, but not schemata.
<li> there is no reason that anything would be discarded in a pump.
<li> although a matter of choice, I don't see why people use absolute paths for reports and discard files. Full paths to data and def files make sense if they are on the SAN/NAS, but then I'd use symlinks from dirdat to the storage directory (on Unix/Linux)
<li> both windows and unix can use forward "/" slashes. Makes examples platform-independent (another reason for relative paths)
<li> your trails really should be much larger than 5MB for better performance (e.g,. 100MB)
<li> you probably should use a source-defs file, intead of a dblogin for metadata. Trail data is by its very nature historical, and using "userid...password" in the prm file inherently gets metadata from "right now". The file-writer doesn't handle DDL changes automatically.
</ul>
So you should have something more like:
Vikas Panwar wrote:
extract ffe711
sourcedefs dirdef/vikstkFF.def
rmthost 10.180.182.77, mgrport 7816
rmttrail dirdat/ff, purge, megabytes 100
table myschema.*;
table myschema2.*;
table ggs.*;For the file-writer pump:
+5. on Flat file GGSCI prompt+
extract ffr711
CUSEREXIT flatfilewriter.dll CUSEREXIT passthru includeupdatebefores, params dirprm\ffwriter.properties
SOURCEDEFS dirdef/vikstkFF.def
table myschema.*;
table ggs.*;
ggsci> add extract ffr711, exttrailsource ./dirdat/pp
ggsci> start extract ffr711
Again, use relative paths when possible (the flatfilewriter.dll is expected to be found in the GG install directory). Put the ffwriter.properties file into dirprm, just as a best-practice. In this file, ffwriter.properties, is where you define your output directory and output files. Again, make sure you have a "table" statement in there for each schema in your trails.
Problem I am facing_
I am not sure where to find the generated flat file,
even the reports are showing there is no data at manager process
I am expecting replicat instead of extract at Flatfile FFR711.prm
I have done this much what to do give me some pointers.....The generated files are defined in the ffwriter.properties file. Search for "rootdir" property, e.g.,
goldengate.flatfilewriter.writers=csvwriter
csvwriter.files.formatstring=output_%d_%010n
csvwriter.files.data.rootdir=dirout
csvwriter.files.control.ext=_data.control
csvwriter.files.control.rootdir=dirout
...The main problem you have is: (1) use rmttrail, not rmtfile, and (2) don't forget the "table" statement, even in a pump.
Also, for the flat-file adapter, it does run in just a "extract" data pump; no "replicat" is ever used. The replicats inherently are tied to a target database; the file-writer doesn't have any database functionality.
Hope it helps,
-m

Is this normal in 'Normal Redundancy' ?

GI version: 11.2.0.4 (3-Node RAC)
OS : Oracle Linux 6.4
Storage from EMC Symmetrix VMAX
I created a diskgroup with normal redundancy as shown below.
10 LUNs of 500GB each = 5000GB
CREATE DISKGROUP DATA_DG1
NORMAL REDUNDANCY
DISK
'ORCL:DATA_D1',
'ORCL:DATA_D2',
'ORCL:DATA_D3',
'ORCL:DATA_D4',
'ORCL:DATA_D5',
'ORCL:DATA_D6',
'ORCL:DATA_D7',
'ORCL:DATA_D8',
'ORCL:DATA_D9',
'ORCL:DATA_D10'
ATTRIBUTE 'au_size' = '4M';
Diskgroup created.
Since it was normal I was expecting half of the Raw space 5000GB = 2.5 Terabyte of usable space. But, the below query output shows I got only 2.19 TeraBytes of Usable space (2249.86 GB). Around 250GB short of what I was expecting.So, where is my 250GB gone ?
SQL> select name, TYPE, TOTAL_MB/1024/1024, FREE_MB/1024/1024, USABLE_FILE_MB/1024/1024 from v$asm_diskgroup where name = 'DATA_DG1';
NAME TYPE TOTAL_MB/1024/1024 FREE_MB/1024/1024 USABLE_FILE_MB/1024/1024
DATA_DG1 NORMAL 4.8828125 4.8825531 2.19713593

The amount of usable file space is equal to the amount of free disk space subtracted by the amount of disk space that is required to restore redundancy after a failure divided by the redundancy level of the disk group which is two in your case.
Run:
select trunc((free_mb - required_mirror_free_mb) / 2) as useable from v$asm_diskgroup where name='DATA_DG1';
Source: http://prutser.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/demystifying-asm-required_mirror_free_mb-and-usable_file_mb/

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