Owner's Manual

24 Installing Oracle on Enterprise Linux
4 In the Operations window, click Create a Database and click Next .
5 In the Node Selection window, click Select All and click Next .
6 In the Database Templates window, click Custom Database and
click
Next .
7 In the Database Identification window, type a Global Database Name ,
such as
racdb and click Next .
8 In the Management Options window, click Next .
9 In the Database Credentials window, select a password option, and type
the appropriate password information (if required) and click
Next .
10 In the Storage Options window, click Automatic Storage Management
(ASM) and click
Next .
11 In the SYS password field in the Create ASM Instance window, enter a
password.
• If your operating system is Enterprise Linux 5. x :
a Select Create initialization parameter file (IFILE).
b Click Next .
12 When a message is displayed indicating that DBCA is ready to create
and
start the ASM instance, click OK .
13 Under ASM Disk Groups , click Create New.
14 In the Create Disk Group window, perform the following steps:
a Enter a name for the disk group to be created (for example,
databaseDG ).
b Select External redundancy.
c If your operating system is Enterprise Linux 5. x , i.e Block devices,
select
/dev/emcpowerX where emcpowerX is the disk stamped for ASM1.
If you are using the ASM library driver and cannot access candidate
disks, click
Change Disk Discovery String , type ORCL:* as the string,
and then select
ORCL:ASM1 .
d Click OK .
A window is displayed indicating that disk group creation is in progress.
The first ASM disk group is created on your cluster.
The ASM Disks Groups window is displayed.