Database Software

We are planning to install 11G r1 rac on AIX 6.1. We will use clusterware and ASM. We would like to avoid GPFS and HACMP.

We plan to put the Clusterware OCR and Voting Disks on Raw Logical Volumes.

I do not believe we need HACMP. see the passage below from doc:

Oracle® Clusterware
Installation Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1) for AIX Based Systems
B28258-05

Configuring Raw Disk Devices for Oracle Clusterware Without HACMP or GPFS

If you are installing Oracle RAC on an AIX cluster without HACMP or GPFS, then you
must use shared raw disk devices for the Oracle Clusterware files. You can also use
shared raw disk devices for database file storage. However, Oracle recommends that
you use Automatic Storage Management to store database files in this situation.
This section describes how to configure the shared raw disk devices for Oracle
Clusterware files (Oracle Cluster Registry and Oracle Clusterware voting disk). It also
describes how to configure shared raw devices for Oracle ASM and for Database files,
if you intend to install Oracle Database, and you need to create new disk devices.


Question:
Do we need HACMP to store the OCR and Voting Disks on Raw Logical Volumes? According to the passage above we do not.