RAC on Windows: Raw devices automount get back to default (disable) at reboot...
We are facing a strange behaviour on our installation:
DB: Oracle DB 10.2.0.4
ED: Standard with RAC on 2 nodes
OS: Win 2003 64bit
HW: Intel Bi-pro / dual-core, 12GB RAM
STOR: NetApp iSCSI.
According to Oracle installation doc, reinforced by metalink Notes, Forums and Microsoft Knowledge base, with Windows 2003, we must manually enable disk automount.
Excerpts:
"If you are using Windows 2003, then you must enable disk automounting, depending on the Oracle products you are installing and on other conditions.
You must enable automounting when using:
Raw partitions for Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)"
Oracle DB 10g R2 doc Part Number B14207-07, section "