Creating a Fast Recovery Area Disk Group

During installation, by default you can create multiple disk groups.

If you plan to add an Oracle Database for a standalone server, then you must create the fast recovery area for database files.

• About the Fast Recovery Area and the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
  The fast recovery area is a unified storage location for all Oracle Database files related to recovery. Enabling rapid backups for recent data can reduce requests to system administrators to retrieve backup tapes for recovery operations.
• Creating the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
  Use this procedure to create the fast recovery area disk group.
• Enabling and Disabling Database Options After Installation
  When you install Oracle Database, some options are enabled and the others disabled. You can view the enabled Oracle Database options by querying the V$OPTION view using SQL*Plus.