7.6 Marking Disk Partitions for Oracle ASM Before Installation
The only partitions that OUI displays for Windows systems are logical drives that are on disks and have been marked (or stamped) with asmtoolg
or by Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) Filter Driver.
If you chose not to use Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) for configuring and marking the disks to use with Oracle ASM, then you must create disk partitions and use the asmtoolg
utility to mark the disk partitions prior to installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure. You also have the option of using the asmtoolg
utility during Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster installation.
All disk names created by asmtoolg
or asmtool
begin with the prefix ORCLDISK
followed by a user-defined prefix (the default is DATA
), and by a disk number for identification purposes. You can use them as raw devices in the Oracle ASM instance by specifying a name \\.\ORCLDISKprefixn
, where prefixn
either can be DATA, or a value you supply, and where n represents the disk number.
The asmtoolg
and asmtool
utilities only work on partitioned disks; you cannot use Oracle ASM on unpartitioned disks. You can also use these tools to reconfigure the disks after installation. These utilities are installed automatically as part of Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
Note:
If user account control (UAC) is enabled, then runningasmtoolg
or asmtool
requires administrator-level permissions.
- Using asmtoolg to Mark Disks
Useasmtoolg
(GUI version) to create device names; useasmtoolg
to add, change, delete, and examine the devices available for use in Oracle ASM. - Using asmtoolg to Remove Disk Stamps
You can useasmtoolg
(GUI version) to delete disk stamps. - asmtool Command Line Reference
asmtool
is a command-line interface for marking (or stamping) disks to be used with Oracle ASM.