In this 3 day class (~20 hours online) Oracle Certified Master John Watson will teach you how to install, configure and manage Oracle Real Application Clusters databases. Emphasis is placed on manual, command line techniques. 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.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 demonstration or exercise.
Objectives
- 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
Technical Requirements
Nothing is required for labs (workshops). SkillBuilders will provide everything you need for all hands-on labs. Modest PC or Mac specs are required to connect to the online class. Detailed specs can be found here.
Also, we strongly recommend using two monitors for this class.
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Free Tutorials
Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 5 Half Days (~20 hours)
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 9
- Assessments Yes
RAC and Grid Infrastructure Architectural summary
- ASM and share storage
- The SCAN and node listener model
- RAC solutions
Real Application Clusters Database Installation
- Installing The Oracle Database Software
- Single Instance to RAC conversion
- Creating A Cluster Database
Oracle 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
Managing Backup and Recovery for RAC
- Protecting Against Media Failure
- Archived Log File Configurations
- Database Backup and Recovery with RMAN
- Recovery following instance failure
Performance 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
High 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
Practical 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
