Creating and Attaching Block Volumes

Create block volumes that will be the data storage area for Oracle or PostgreSQL, and attach it to the cluster node.

Creating Block Volumes

Create two block volumes for sios20-node1 and sios20-node2.

Create two Block Volumes, one for sios20-node1 and one for sios20-node2, by entering the following values in the form that appears.

Item	Value
Item	sios20-node1	sios20-node2
Name	sios20-volume1	sios20-volume2
Create In Compartment	sios20-c
Availability Domain	niqh:AP-TOKYO-1-AD-1 (default)
Volume Size and Performance
Default / Custom	Custom (*1)
Volume Size	50 (*1)
Target Volume Performance	Default for all
Backup Policies
Select Backup Policy	No Backup Policy Selected
Cross Region Replication
ON / OFF	OFF

Encryption	Encrypt using Oracle-managed keys
View detail page after this block volume is created	Enabled

*1 : Since this is for verification, Custom is selected and the minimum size of 50 GB is specified (default size is 1024 GB)

Attach the Block Volume created in the previous section to both cluster nodes sios20-node1 and sios20-node2.

On the sios20-volume1 (or sios20-volume2) details page, click Attached Instances > Attach to Instance.

Enter the following values in the form that appears to attach each Block Volume to sios20-node1 and sios20-node2.

Item	Value
Item	sios20-volume1	sios20-volume2
Attachment Type	Paravirtualized (*1)
Access Type	Read/Write
Instance
Select Instance / Enter Instance OCID	Select Instance
Choose instance	sios20-node1	sios20-node2

*1 : iSCSI can also be specified, but it requires iSCSI initiator settings, etc. on the cluster node. This is not covered in this guide.