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Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
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Course Overview
Students will be introduced to the general features and capabilities of Oracle Database 10g for Real Application Clusters (RAC). Students will learn how to install and configure Oracle Clusterware, Real Application Clusters, and Automatic Storage Management. Lectures are reinforced with demonstrations on how to administer an Oracle database in a RAC environment. The course is based on TUSC's industry experience with RAC implementations, as well as recognized expert reference materials and documentation.
Course Goals
- Identify Real Application Clusters components
- Install, create, administer, and monitor a Real Application Clusters database
- Use configuration and management tools for RAC databases
- Develop a backup and recovery strategy for Real Application Clusters databases
- Configure and monitor Oracle Clusterware resources
- Review high availability best practices
Prerequisites
- An understanding single-instance Oracle Database 10g architecture
- Familiarity with Oracle database management tools (OUI, DBCA, etc)
- Familiarity with basic networking topology
Who Should Attend?
- Database administrators
- System administrators
Course Materials
- Oracle RAC Course Notes
- Oracle RAC Reference Guide
Duration
Tuition
Course Outline
- Introduction to Real Application Clusters (RAC)
- Introduction to Grid technology
- Clustering Scalability and High Availability
- The Necessity of Global Resources
- Understanding Real Application Clusters
- RAC and Shared Storage Technologies
- RAC architecture and components
- RAC Installation
- Describe RAC pre-installation tasks
- Install Oracle Clusterware
- Install and configure Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
- Install the Oracle database software
- Cluster database creation
- Database Administration for RAC
- Start and Stop RAC databases and instances
- Modify initialization parameters in a RAC environment
- Manage ASM instances in a RAC environment
- Determining RAC-specific wait events, global enqueues and system statistics
- Implementing common RAC tuning tips
- Using Services for Workload Management
- Configure and manage services in a RAC environment
- Set performance-metric thresholds on services
- Configure services aggregation and tracing
- Configure server-side connect-time load balancing
- Configure server-side callouts
- Configure server-side and client-side ONS
- Configure Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
- Backup and recovery for RAC Databases
- Placing the RAC database in ARCHIVELOG mode
- Using the Flash Recovery Area
- Configure RMAN for the RAC environment
- Using Oracle Clusterware Resources
- Control the Oracle Clusterware stack
- Change voting disk and OCR configuration
- Backup and recover voting disks and OCR files
- Change VIP addresses
- Collect Oracle Clusterware diagnostic files
- Enable Oracle Clusterware debugging
- RAC Design and Deployment
- RAC Design Considerations
- Migration to RAC
- Data Guard configurations with RAC
- Deciding on the best ASM configuration to use
- Data Guard configurations with RAC
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