Owner's Manual

26 Deployment Guide
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15 Enter the information in the Disk Group window for the flashback recovery files and
click
OK .
Enter a name for the disk group to be created, such as
flashbackDG , select External
Redundancy
, and select the disks to include in the disk group (for example, /dev/raw/ASM2 ).
A window appears indicating that disk group creation is in progress.
16 In the Select disk groups to be used as storage for database window, check the disk group that
you would like to use for database storage (for example,
databaseDG ) and click Next .
17 In Select File Locations window, check Use Common Location for All Database Files ,
and click
Next .
18 In Recovery Configuration window, click Browse , select the flashback group that you created
in step 15 (for example,
flashbackDG ), and click Next .
19 In Database Content window, click Next .
20 In Database Services window, click Next .
21 In the Initialization Parameters window, if your cluster has eight nodes, change the Shared
Pool
value to 500 MB, and click Next .
22 In the Database Storage window, click Next .
23 In the Creation Options window, select Create Database and click Finish .
24 In the Confirmation window click OK to create the database.
NOTE: The creation of the seed database may take more than an hour.
When the database creation is complete, the Password Management window appears.
25 Click Exit .
A message appears indicating that the cluster database is being started on all nodes.
26 Perform the following steps on each node :
a Ty p e srvctl status database -d <database name> to determine which
database instance exists on that node.
b Type the following commands to add the ORACLE_SID environment variable entry
in the
oracle user profile:
echo "export ORACLE_SID=racdbx" >> /home/oracle/.bash_profile
source /home/oracle/.bash_profile
where racdbx is the database instance identifier assigned to the node.
This example assumes that
racdb is the global database name that you defined
in DBCA.