Using external redundancy DG for voting files

Hi all,
I'm trying to convince a colleague of mine that having a single voting file/disk on an external redundancy ASM disk group is a bad idea since a logical corruption would mean a painful outage and recovery operation. There is also the possibility that during certain cluster failures there would always be only a single available cluster node since there is only a single voting disk (so no majority voting to decide on the active cluster members). I would greatly appreciate some feedback on further arguments as well as the validity of mine own using the term 'logical' corruption and the voting to decide on the active cluster members.
I appreciate your time. Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Oracle recommended for OCR files and VOTE file/disks ASM redundancy is HIGH with 5 way.
I think you must create a ASM disk group for example OCRVOTE, with HIGH redundancy.
And replace vote disk to new ASM diskgroup, and and change OCR files location to new ASM diskgroup.
Regards
Mahir M. Quluzade
www.mahir-quluzade.com

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