Owner's Manual

26 Deployment Guide
13 In the Database Services window, click Next .
14 In the Initialization Parameters window, if your cluster has more than four nodes, change the Shared
Pool
value to 500 MB, and click Next .
15 In the Database Storage window, click Next .
16 In the Creation Options window, check Create Database and click Finish .
17 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.
18 Click Exit .
A message appears indicating that the cluster database is being started on all nodes.
19 On each node , perform the following steps:
a Determine which database instance exists on that node by typing:
srvctl status database -d <database name>
b Add the ORACLE_SID environment variable entry in the oracle user profile by typing:
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.
Creating the Seed Database Using ASM
Perform the following steps to create the seed database using Oracle ASM:
1
On node 1 , as user oracle , type dbca & to start the DBCA.
2 In the Welcome window, select Oracle Real Application Cluster Database and click Next .
3 In the Operations window, click Create a Database and click Next .
4 In the Node Selection window, click Select All and click Next .
5 In the Database Templates window, click Custom Database and click Next .
6 In the Database Identification window, enter a Global Database Name , such as racdb ,
and click
Next .
7 In the Management Options window, click Next .
8 In the Database Credentials window, click Use the Same Password for All Accounts , complete
password selections and entries, and click
Next .
9 In the Storage Options window, click ASM and click Next .
10 In the Create ASM Instance window, enter the password for user SYS , click Create server parameter
file
, change the location to /dev/raw/spfile+ASM.ora , and then click Next .