Configuring Automatic Storage Management Using DBCA

Configuring Automatic Storage Management Using DBCA

You can also use DBCA to configure Automatic Storage Management (ASM) as a separate operation from creating a database. In this case, DBCA creates the ASM instance in its own Oracle home instead of using the Oracle home of a database. After you create the ASM instance and define disk groups, you can then perform a separate DBCA operation to create a database that uses those disk groups for storing database files. Creating an ASM instance in its own Oracle home is recommended, and has the advantage of enabling more than one Oracle database to use the ASM disk groups. This configuration differs from the configuration that you can choose with advanced installation as described in "Advanced Installation", in which you create a database, and as part of the database creation process, you create an ASM instance that uses the same Oracle home as the database. See the installation and platform guides for your environment for more information. For an overview of ASM, see Appendix A, "Administering Automatic Storage Management". For more detailed information, see Oracle Database Storage Administrator's Guide
在用DBCA创建数据库之外，还可以用DBCA来配置ASM。在这种情况下DBCA在自己的根目录下创建ASM实例，而不是用数据库的oracle根目录。在你创建ASM实例并且定义了磁盘组之后，可以执行一个单独的DBCA操作来创建数据库，此数据库用的就是刚才配置的磁盘组来存放数据库文件。建议把ASM实例建在它自己的根目录下，也不要在ASM磁盘组上创建多个数据库实例。这里不同于 "Advanced Installation"讲的创建数据库时候的高级安装，作为创建数据库的一部分，你在相同的根目录下创建了ASM实例。根据你的环境更多信息参见安装和平台导航。总览ASM参见 Appendix A, "Administering Automatic Storage Management"。详细信息参见 Oracle Database Storage Administrator's Guide。

To configure Automatic Storage Management using DBCA:
用DBCA配置ASM：

1. Configure Cluster Synchronization Services (CSS) by running the following command as the root user (UNIX and Linux) or as an administrative user (Windows):
   要配置CSS，linux或Unix系统以root用户执行如下命令，windows以管理员来执行。

   Oracle_home/bin/localconfig add
   

2. Start DBCA as described in "Starting DBCA".

3. In the Operations window, select Configure Automatic Storage Management, and then follow the guided workflow to create and start the ASM instance and create disk groups.