Oracle RAC 11gR2 on Windows - Disk Storage Newbie question

Hi all
I have been reading through the Grid install guide in an effort to understand how to set up a RAC solution. I am new to Oracle so a lot of these concepts I am trying to understand but from what I am reading a typical install would be to have my cluster software installed on a particular shared storage type of either OCFS or ASM. These storage types then sit on top of a redundant option such as RAID, or logical volumes across disks or a kind of mirroring (SAME).
I know what I have said is probably a rough attempt at understanding this but what I would like is if anyone has any diagrams that lay this out for me to aid my understanding that would be great.
I am kind of at a stage where I am thinking about creating a RAC installation on some VMWare and want to know how best to configure the initial disks, and whether to add them to a RAID or carve them into partitions.
Hope I have made sense.
Thanks

Hi;
Please change thread status to answered here, it pretend to lose time of other forums user while they are searching open question which is not answered,thanks for understanding
Regard
Helios

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