Oracle Database 12c: Clusterware Administration (D81246)

Introduction to Grid Infrastructure

• What is a Cluster?
• What is a Flex Cluster?
• Clusterware Characteristics
• Oracle Clusterware
• Hardware and Software Concepts (High level)
• Shared Storage Overview

Oracle Clusterware Architecture

• Cluster Storage Requirements
• Clusterware Initialization and OHASD
• Clusterware Process Architecture
• Location Independent Names, Addresses and Name Resolution (GNS, SCAN, VIP..)
• Shared GNS Background and Architecture
• Configuring shared GNS
• Migrating to shared GNS
• Moving GNS to Another Cluster

Flex Cluster Architecture

• Flex Cluster Architecture
• Configuring Flex Cluster
• Flex Clusters and Node Failure

Grid Infrastructure Pre-Installation Tasks

• Shared Storage for Oracle Clusterware
• Checking System Requirements
• Single Client Access Name for the Cluster
• Redundant Interconnect Usage
• Kernel Requirements
• Groups and Users
• Shell Settings
• Oracle Validated Configuration

Installing Grid Infrastructure

• Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• Installing Flex Cluster
• Verifying the Oracle Clusterware Installation

Managing Cluster Nodes

• Adding Oracle Clusterware Homes
• Prerequisites for Running addNode.sh
• Adding a Node with addNode.sh
• Configuring the node role
• Removing a Node from the Cluster

Traditional Clusterware Management

• Oracle Clusterware startup and shutdown
• Administering the Voting Disk file
• Administering the Oracle Cluster Registry Disk file
• Network Administration
• What-If Command Evaluation
• Clusterware Admin Tools Review

Policy-Based Cluster Management

• Policy-Based Cluster Management Overview
• Server Categorization
• Policy Set

Patching Grid Infrastructure

• Out-of-Place Oracle Clusterware Upgrade
• Types of Patches
• Obtaining Oracle Clusterware Patches
• Rolling Patches
• Installing a Rolling Patchset with OUI
• OPatch Overview
• Installing a Rolling Patch with OPatch
• OPatch Automation

Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

• Diagnostic Framework Support for CRS
• Cluster Health Monitor Enhancements Overview
• Component level checks - cluvfy with -comp
• Resource Debugging - Java Tools and Dynamic Debugging
• Troubleshooting Node Evictions
• Log files and Diagnostic Collection
• The oclumon Utility

Making Applications Highly Available

• Overview of Using Oracle Clusterware to Enable HA
• Oracle Clusterware HA Components
• Resource Management Options
• Server Pools
• Overall flow diagram of HA lifecycle (crs_profile, crs_register, crs_start….)
• Clusterware Resource Modeling
• Creating an Application VIP
• ONS and FAN overviews