Getting Started Guide

4 Contents
3 Preparing Shared Storage for Oracle RAC
Installation
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Partitioning the Shared Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Adjusting the Stripe Element Size
on a Primary Partition
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing and Configuring ASMlib
. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using ASMLib to Mark the Shared Disks
as Candidate Disks
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4 Installing Oracle 11g R2
Grid Infrastructure
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Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Configure the System Clock Settings
for All Nodes
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Configuring Node One
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
5 Configuring Shared Oracle Home
for Database Binary Using ACFS
. . . . . . 33
6 Installing Oracle 11g R2 Database
(RDBMS) Software
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7 Creating Diskgroup Using ASM
Configuration Assistant (ASMCA)
. . . . . . 37
8 Creating Database Using DBCA
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