Owner's Manual

Deployment Guide 33
Creating the Seed Database Using Oracle ASM
If you configured your storage using Oracle ASM, perform the following steps to create a seed
database with the Oracle Database Creation Assistant (DBCA):
1 As user oracle , type dbca & to start the DBCA.
2 In the Welcome window, click Next .
3 In the Operations window, click Create a Database and click Next .
4 In the Database Templates window, click Custom Database and click Next .
5 In the Database Identification window, enter a Global Database Name such as oradb
and click
Next .
6 In the Management Options window, click Next .
7 In the Database Credentials window, click Use the Same Password for All Accounts ,
complete password entries, and click
Next .
8 In the Storage Options window, click ASM and click Next .
9 In the Create ASM Instance window, enter the password for user SYS and click Next .
10 When a message appears indicating that DBCA is ready to create and start the ASM instance,
click
OK .
11 In the ASM Disk Groups window, under Available Disk Groups , click Create New .
12 Enter the storage information in the Create Disk Group window for the database files
and click
OK .
Enter a name for the disk group to be created, such as
databaseDG , select External
Redundancy
, and select the disks to include in the disk group (for example, /dev/raw/ASM1 ).
A window appears indicating that disk group creation is in progress.
13 Under Available Disk Groups , click Create New .
14 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.
15 In the ASM Disk Groups window, check the disk group that you would like to use for
database storage (for example,
databaseDG ) and click Next .
16 In the Database File Locations window, check Use Common Location for All Database
Files
, and click Next .
17 In the Recovery Configuration window, click Browse , select the flashback group that you
created in step 14 (for example,
flashbackDG ), and click Next .
18 In the Database Content window, click Next .