Deployment Guide

Deployment Guide 29
Preparing the Database Disk and Flash Recovery Area for Database Storage With
OCFS
This section provides information for creating logical drives that will be used to
create the Oracle’s Clustered File System (OCFS) storage disk.
NOTE: When using ASM storage management, the ASM data disk group should be
larger than your database (multiple LUNs) and the ASM Flash Recovery Area disk
group should be at least twice the size of your data disk group.
NOTE: If you are creating the logical drives that are used to create the Automatic
Storage Management (ASM) storage disk, ignore the following steps and see
"Preparing the Database Disk and Flash Recovery Area for Database Storage
With ASM" on page 30.
1 On node 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 in the Partition size in MB field,
enter the appropriate size 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 On node 1, 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 login as the administrator.