Owner's Manual

Installing Oracle 11g R2 Database RAC 17
Creating ASM Disk Group
This section contains procedures to create the ASM disk group for the
database files and Flash Recovery Area (FRA).
To create the ASM disk groups:
1
Start the asmca utility:
<GRID HOME>\bin\asmca
2
In the ASM configuration Assistant window, select the Disk Groups tab.
3 Click Create .
4 Enter the Disk Group Name as databaseDG .
5 Configure the redundancy level to External redundancy .
6 Click Stamp Disks .
The
asmtool Operation Wizard is displayed.
7 Select Add or Change Label and click Next .
8 In the Select Disks window, select the desired candidate device for asm
stamping and assign the name
DATA .
9 Click Next .
10 Click Next in the Stamp Disks window.
11 Click Finish in the Message ASM window.
12 Select the member disks.
13 Select \\ORCLDISKDATA0 to store the database files.
14 Click OK to create and mount the disks.
15 Repeat step 3 to step 14 to create another disk group called flashbackDG
for FRA.
16 Click Exit to exit the ASM configuration assistant .