Deployment Guide
Deployment Guide 33
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 Database Disk and Flash Recovery Area for Database Storage
This section provides information about creating logical drives that will be
used to create ASM disk storage. ASM disk storage consists of one or more
disk groups that can span multiple disks.
1
Create one logical drive for the Database.
a
Locate the disk that is assigned for the Oracle database.
b
On the disk partition area, right-click the free space and select N
ew
Logical Drive
. The
Welcome to the New Partition Wizard
appears.
c
Click
Next
.
d
In the
Select Partition Type
window, select
Logical drive
and click
Next
.
e
In the
Specify Partition Size
window, enter the appropriate size in the
Partition size in MB
field and click
Next
.
f
In the
Assign Drive Letter or Path
window, select
Do not assign a
drive letter or drive path
and click
Next
.
g
In the
Format Partition
window, select
Do not format this partition
and click
Next
.
h
Click
Finish
.
2
Create one logical drive for the Flash Recovery Area.
a
Locate the disk that is assigned for the Flash Recovery Area.
b
Perform step b through step h in step 1.
3
Restart all other nodes and log in as the administrator.
Removing the Assigned Drive Letters
1
On the Windows desktop for each node, right-click
My Computer
and
select
Manage
.
2
In the
Computer Management
window, expand
Storage
and click
Disk
Management
.