I am in the process of installing Oracle 10g RAC on two Windows 2003 Servers My shared storage consists of seperate LUNs for OCR, Voting, Data and Flash Recovery. I plan on using RAW partitions for the OCR and Voting disks and ASM for the Data and flash Recovery area.
My problem is that if I create the partitions as Primary partitions, Oracle cannot see them. If I create extended partitions and then create a logical drive on top of the partiton, I can see the disks, but this seems like an unnecessary step.
Am I correct? Or is it required that the drives be placed on extended partitions?
Oracles installation instructions are unclear, as they only deal with the configuration as having 1 LUN, making the entire LUN an extended partition and then creating multiple logical drives.
My problem is that if I create the partitions as Primary partitions, Oracle cannot see them. If I create extended partitions and then create a logical drive on top of the partiton, I can see the disks, but this seems like an unnecessary step.
Am I correct? Or is it required that the drives be placed on extended partitions?
Oracles installation instructions are unclear, as they only deal with the configuration as having 1 LUN, making the entire LUN an extended partition and then creating multiple logical drives.