Step by step setup ASM using os files in 11g

Environment: Windows
DB version: 11.1.0.6
–Creating the ASM Instance Manually, using dbca is also ok
–create CSS service if it doesn’t exist in services
WINNT> <ORACLE_HOME>\bin\localconfig add
–create 2 1000MB os files as asmdisk
asmtool -create D:\asm\asmdisk1 1000
asmtool -create D:\asm\asmdisk2 1000
–if get an error msg, using commnd “net helpmsg errornumber” to know why
–create spfile
file: <ORACLE_HOME>\database\init+ASM.ora
INSTANCE_TYPE=ASM
DB_UNIQUE_NAME=+ASM
ASM_DISKSTRING=’D:\asm\*’
LARGE_POOL_SIZE=16M
_ASM_ALLOW_ONLY_RAW_DISKS= FALSE
–Note: The undocumented parameter _ASM_ALLOW_ONLY_RAW_DISKS is [...]