Deployment Guide

Deployment Guide 31
To prepare the disks for Oracle Clusterware, identify the OCR, voting, data
and flash recovery area disks. After you identify the appropriate disks, perform
the following steps on node 1.
Enabling the Automount Option for the Shared Disks
1 On node 1, click Start and select Run .
2 In the Run field, enter cmd and click OK .
3 At the command prompt, enter diskpart .
4 At the DISKPART command prompt, enter automount enable . The
following message appears:
Automatic mounting of new volumes enabled.
5
At the DISKPART command prompt, enter exit .
6 Close the command prompt.
7 Repeat step 1 through step 6 on each of the remaining nodes.
Preparing the OCR and Voting Disks for Clusterware
1 On the Windows desktop, right-click My Computer and select Manage .
2 Expand Storage and click Disk Management . The storage disk that you
initialized in the "Verifying Multi-Path Driver Functionality" on page 29
appears as
Unallocated .
3 Right-click the partition area of the first shared disks assigned to the
cluster nodes and select
New Partition . The Welcome to the New
Partition Wizard
appears.
4 Click Next .
5 In the Select Partition Type window, select Extended partition and click
Next .
6 In the Specify Partition Size window, accept the default partition size and
click
Next .
7 Click Finish .
The disk partition area you selected in step 3 is configured as an extended
partition.
8 Repeat step 3 through step 7 on all shared disks that are assigned to the
cluster nodes.