Course Overview
In this 3-day class, students will learn how to install, configure, and manage Oracle Real Application Clusters databases. Emphasis is placed on manual, command-line techniques. Each student is provided with a pre-built cluster, with Grid Infrastructure and shared storage (both ASM and a clustered file system) configured. The course is workshop oriented: students will go through practical exercises that cover all the tasks likely to be needed when creating, migrating to, and administering RAC databases.
Configuring MAA (Maximum Availability Architecture, RAC plus Data Guard) is discussed and (time, interest, and background knowledge permitting) can be included as a demonstration or exercise.
What you’ll learn
After completing the Oracle RAC Administration Training course, students will be able to:
- Create clustered databases, convert from single instance to RAC
- Carry out basic RAC administration, backup and recovery, and performance tuning
- Configure RAC database services for zero downtime
- Use GI to manage virtual IP addresses
- Configure shared storage
Requirements
- Knowledge of the single instance database architecture is a prerequisite. Detailed knowledge of Grid Infrastructure (ASM and Clusterware) is not essential, but may be beneficial.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 7 Lessons
- 3 Days
- Topics7
- 1.1RAC and Grid Infrastructure Architectural summary ASM and share storage The SCAN and node listener model RAC solutions
- 1.2Real Application Clusters Database Installation Installing The Oracle Database Software Single Instance to RAC conversion Creating A Cluster Database
- 1.3Oracle RAC Administration Redo Log Files In A RAC Environment Undo Tablespaces In A RAC Environment Starting And Stopping RAC Databases And Instances Initialization Parameters In A RAC Environment
- 1.4Managing Backup and Recovery for RAC Protecting Against Media Failure Archived Log File Configurations Database Backup and Recovery with RMAN Recovery following instance failure
- 1.5Performance Tuning The Tuning Methodology The global cache and the global enqueue service RAC Specific Statistics and Wait Events Tuning Parallel Processing RAC Specific Performance Issues AWR and Statspack in a clustered environment
- 1.6High availability and services RAC Service Architecture Configure and Manage Services in a RAC environment Using Services with Client Applications The fault tolerant architecture Instance evictions Policy managed databases and services Stretched clusters Maximum availability Architecture: RAC plus Data Guard
- 1.7Practical Exercises Install a RAC database home Convert a single instance database to RAC Create a RAC database Configure RMAN for a RAC database Backup, restore, and recover a RAC database Tune parallel query and parallel DML in a RAC Convert databases between administrator management and policy management Use services for high availability and load balancing Set up session connect time load balancing and fault tolerance Configure session failover
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