How to Prepare Disks for Replication on GCP

Create /datakeeper Folder

*Note: After performing mkdir /datakeeper, change ownership to oracle.oinstall so that Oracle
setup can actually create database files. Run command: sudo chown oracle.oinstall /datakeeper

Check the Available Disks on node-a

Confirm the disk to mount using lsblk. As seen in the screenshot below, the storage device sdc is not mounted to the instance yet.

Use parted to prepare the partition, then use mkfs to prepare the file system.

Run lsblk again, now /dev/sdc1 should now be available to mount.

Now you are ready to create the Data Replication Resource using LifeKeeper / DataKeeper.