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Configuring and Deploying Oracle for a Single Node 35
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 DBCA:
1 As user oracle , start DBCA by typing: 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 is displayed 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 In the Create Disk Group window, enter the storage information for the
database files and click
OK .
a Enter a name for the disk group to be created, such as databaseDG ,
select
External Redundancy , and select the ORCL:ASM1 disk to
include in the disk group.
b If you are using the ASM library driver and you cannot access
candidate disks, click
Change Disk Discovery String , enter ORCL :* as
the string, and then select
ORCL:ASM1 .
c Click OK .
The first ASM disk group is created on your cluster.
Next, the ASM Disks Groups window is displayed.