Select the method that you want to use to store database files, and then click Next.
The following storage options are available. Refer to the appropriate sections for information about how to specify the information required by each option.
Note: Installing Oracle data files on an Oracle ACFS file system is not supported. Oracle recommends that these data files are installed in Oracle ASM disk groups.
Select this option if you want to store the database files on a file system. For Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) installations, the file system that you choose must be a cluster file system. Alternatively, it must be on a certified network attached storage (NAS) device.
To store the database files on a file system:
Select File System.
In the Specify Database file location field, specify the parent directory for the database files directory.
Note: Oracle recommends that you change the default path chosen by Oracle Universal Installer.
Oracle Universal Installer provides a default directory path, which is chosen as follows:
On UNIX systems:
If the ORACLE_BASE environment variable is defined when you start Oracle Universal Installer, then the default directory path is $ORACLE_BASE/oradata.
If the ORACLE_BASE environment variable is not defined, but you have write permissions in the parent directory of the Oracle home directory, then the default directory path is oracle_home_parent_dir/oradata, where oracle_home_parent_dir is the path to the parent directory of the Oracle home directory that you specify.
In all other cases, the default directory path is oracle_home/oradata, where oracle_home is path to the Oracle home directory that you specify.
On Microsoft Windows systems:
The default directory path is ORACLE_BASE\oradata, where ORACLE_BASE is the parent directory of the Oracle home directory where you chose to install the product.
Apply the following guidelines when specifying this directory:
The directory that you specify must be on a file system that is different from both the operating system and the Oracle home directory.
On UNIX systems, the Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines recommend that the path you specify be similar to the following, where mount_point is a file system mount point directory:
/mount_point/oradata
For example:
/u02/oradata
The directory that you specify must exist, and the user that started Oracle Universal Installer must have write permissions on this directory.
The file system that contains the directory must have at least 1.2 GB of free disk space. Additional disk space is required for production databases, depending on the amount of data that you plan to store.
Oracle Universal Installer installs the database files in a subdirectory of the path you specify, which it names using the value you specify for the database name. For example, if you specify sales.us.example.com for the global database name and /u02/oradata for the database file location, then Oracle Universal Installer places database files in the /u02/oradata/sales directory.
Select this option if you installed Grid Infrastructure and you want to store the database files in an Automatic Storage Management disk group. Automatic Storage Management disk groups are created by specifying one or more disk devices that will be managed by a separate Oracle Automatic Storage Management instance.