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4 In the Welcome window, select Oracle Real Application Clusters database
and click
Next .
5 In the Operations window, click Create a Database and click Next .
6 In the Database Templates window, click Custom Database and click Next .
7 In the Database Identification window, in the Global Database Name field,
enter a name such as
singledb 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 necessary), and click
Next .
NOTE: Record your new password because you will need this information later
for database administration.
10 In the Storage Options window, select 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 and confirm a new password in the
appropriate fields.
b Click Next .
12 When a message is displayed that the Database Configuration Assistant
is ready to create and start the ASM instance, click OK .
13 In the ASM Disk Groups window, click Create New .
14 In the Create Disk Group window, perform the following steps:
a Enter a name for the new disk group, such as databaseDG .
b In the Redundancy box, select External .
c Select the disks ORCL:ASM1 to include in the disk group.
d If you are using the ASM library driver and you cannot access candidate
disks, click
Change Disk Discovery String and enter ORCL:* for the
discovery string and then select
ORCL:ASM1.
e Click OK . The first ASM disk group is created on your cluster,
and the
ASM Disk Groups window is displayed.
f Repeat these steps to create a disk group for the Flash Recovery Area,
using
flashbackDG as the disk group name.