Owner's Manual

Installing Oracle 11g R1 Database RAC 25
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, 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 Create ASM Instance window, perform the following steps:
a In the SYS password field, type a password.
b Select Create server parameter file (SPFILE) .
c In the Server Parameter Filename field, type:
/opt/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/initl+ASM.ora
d 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 Type a name for the disk group to be created, such as databaseDG ,
select
External Redundancy , and then select the disks 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 , type 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.
15 Repeat step 14 for the remaining ASM disk group, using flashbackDG
as the disk group name.