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Oracle 10g RAC on ESXi3 using SLES9 SP5 – Part 7

February 15th, 2009 2 comments

Configuring and Using Raw Partitions for the Oracle Shared Storage

For the purpose of my cluster I will use raw partitions that are shared disks on the ESXi host.
First I will identify my needs for shared disks and them will create them and format them accordingly.

After some high level overview of my requirements I have created the following list of required files:

asm01.vmdk = 6GB [ ORADATA ]
asm02.vmdk = 2GB [Application data]
asm03.vmdk = 4GB [FLASH]
ocr.vmdk = 256MB [Cluster Registry]
voting.vmdk = 40MB [Voting disk]
spfile.vmdk = 16MB [Parameter configuration]

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