Users Guide
Configuring Network and Storage for Oracle RAC Database 45
f
In the
Format Partition
window, select
Do not format this partition
and click
Next
.
g
Click
Finish
.
h
Repeat step a to step g to create two additional voting disk partitions.
NOTE: If you are using Redundant Voting Disk and OCR, repeat the steps outlined in
step 9 and step 10 for the redundant Voting Disk and OCR.
Preparing the OCR and Votingdisk for Clusterware on Windows Server
2008
NOTE: The steps to create extended partitions and to create logical drives are
identical to the steps of Windows Server 2003, however, it is no longer possible to
perform these steps in Windows Server 2008 from the Disk Management GUI.
To create extended partitions and logical drives:
1
Start
→
Run
and type
cmd
and click
Enter
to open a command prompt
window.
2
Ty p e
diskpart
in the command prompt to open the diskpart interface.
3
Enter
list disk
and a table is displayed as shown:
DISKPART> list disk
4
Enter
select disk [disk #]
of the target disk.
NOTE: The following steps explain how to create partitions and logical disks
for MBR disk.
5
Ty p e
create partition extended
and press
Enter
.
6
Ty p e
create partition logical size=
<size of volume in
megabytes> and press
Enter
.
Disk ### Status Size Free
Disk 0 Online 37 GB 0 MB
Disk 1 Online 2048 MB 2014 MB
Disk 2 Online 100 GB 100 GB
Disk 3 Online 200 GB 200 GB