5.4 Creating Oracle Software Directories

During installation, you are prompted to provide a path to a home directory to store Oracle Grid Infrastructure software.

You also need to provide a home directory when installing Oracle RAC. Each directory has certain requirements that must be met for the software to work correctly.

Oracle Universal Installer creates the directories during installation if they do not exist.

• Temporary Directories
  To install properly across all nodes, OUI uses the temporary folders defined within Microsoft Windows.
• Oracle Base Directory for the Grid User
  During installation, you are prompted to specify an Oracle base location, which is owned by the user performing the installation.
• Oracle Home Directory for Grid Infrastructure Management Repository
  Review this information about creating the Oracle home directory location for Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) on each cluster node.
• Grid Home Directory
  When installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure, you must determine the location of the Oracle home for Oracle Grid Infrastructure software (Grid home).
• Oracle Inventory Directory
  The Oracle Inventory directory is the central inventory location for all Oracle software installed on a server.
• Requirements for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Directory
  Review directory path requirements for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home directory.
• About Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path
  The Oracle base directory for the Oracle Installation User for Oracle Grid Infrastructure is the location where diagnostic and administrative logs, and other logs associated with Oracle ASM and Oracle Clusterware are stored.