Oracle 10g RAC (Real Application Cluster)

Course Contents

Identify Real Application Clusters components

• Understand Real Application Clusters
• Clusters Scalability and High Availability
• The Necessity of Global Resources
• Parallel Execution with RAC
• RAC Software and Database Principles
• RAC and Shared Storage Technologies
• Understand VIPs
• Describe the benefits of Fast Application Notification

Install, create, administer, and monitor a Real Application Clusters databases

• Describe the installation of Oracle RAC 10g
• Perform RAC pre-installation tasks
• Perform cluster setup tasks
• Install Oracle Clusterware
• Install and configure Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
• Install the Oracle database software
• Create a cluster database

Use configuration and management tools for Real Application Clusters databases

• Use Enterprise Manager cluster database pages
• Define redo log files in a RAC environment
• Define undo tablespaces in a RAC environment
• Start and stop RAC databases and instances
• Modify initialization parameters in a RAC environment
• Manage ASM instances in a RAC environment
• Determine RAC-specific wait events, global enqueues, and system statistics
• Implement the most common RAC tuning tips

Configure server-side connect-time load balancing

• Use the Load Balancing Advisory
• Develop a backup and recovery strategy for Real Application Clusters databases
• Configure the RAC database to use ARCHIVELOG mode and the flash recovery area
• Configure RMAN for the RAC environment

Configure and monitor Oracle Clusterware resources

• Manually control the Oracle Clusterware stack
• Change voting disk and OCR configuration
• Back up or recover your voting disks and OCR files
• Change VIP addresses
• Use the CRS framework
• Collect Oracle Clusterware diagnostic files
• Enable Oracle Clusterware debugging

Review high availability best practices

• Design a Maximum Availability Architecture in your environment
• Decide on the best ASM configuration to use

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