Creating Oracle 11gR1 (11.1.0.6) Real Application Cluster (RAC) Database on ASM

This document explains the step by step process of Creating Oracle 11g R1 RAC database using ASM storage option.        

Make Sure that the crs is up and running and nodeapps and asm instances are up and running on all the nodes in Cluster.
[oracle@node1-pub ~]$ crs_stat -t
Name           Type           Target    State     Host        
------------------------------------------------------------
ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....UB.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....pub.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....pub.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....pub.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....SM2.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
ora....UB.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
ora....pub.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
ora....pub.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
ora....pub.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
[oracle@node1-pub ~]$

[root@node1-pub ~]# crsctl check crs
Cluster Synchronization Services appears healthy
Cluster Ready Services appears healthy
Event Manager appears healthy
[root@node1-pub ~]#

[oracle@node1-pub oracle]$ dbca

     Select "Oracle Real Application Cluster database" option and Click Next.