A.2 About DBCA Noninteractive (Silent) Configuration for Oracle RAC

You can perform a noninteractive, or silent configuration of Oracle RAC using Oracle Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA).

To perform a silent configuration, you must have completed an Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM)) installation.

You can use DBCA to create a database from templates supplied by Oracle, or from templates that you create. The templates contain settings optimized for a particular type of workload.

Oracle provides templates for the following two workload types:

• General purpose or transaction processing

• Data warehouse

For more complex environments, you can select the Custom Database option. This option does not use templates and results in a more extensive installation interview, which means that it takes longer to create your database.