Oracle Database 12c: Clusterware & ASM Admin Accelerated (D87471)

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

Oracle ASM Overview

• Overview of ASM
• ASM Placement in Storage Stack
• ASM Cluster Configuration for Oracle RAC
• ASM System Privileges
• ASM OS Groups and Role Separation
• ASM Components
• Software
• Configure disks as ASM candidate disks

Oracle ASM Instance Administration

• ASM Instance Administration
• Instance Parameters
• ASM_DISKGROUPS
• Adjusting ASM Instance Parameters in SPFILEs
• Instance Startup and Shutdown
• Relevant V$Views

Flex ASM

• Flex ASM Architecture
• Background and Overview
• ASM Deployment Alternatives
• Configuring Flex ASM
• Managing Flex ASM
• Relocating an ASM Client

Administering ASM Disk Groups

• ASM Disk Group Overview
• Disk Group Attributes
• Compatibility Attributes
• Disk Group Management
• Disk Group Metadata
• Viewing Connected Clients
• Disk Group Rebalance
• ASM Fast Mirror Resync

Administering ASM Files, Directories, and Templates

• Interaction Between Database Instances and ASM
• Accessing ASM Files
• Fully Qualified ASM File Names
• ASM File Creation
• View ASM Aliases, Files, and Directories
• ASM Directories Overview
• Managing ASM Directories
• Managing Alias File Names

Administering Oracle Cloud File System

• Oracle Cloud File System Components
• Overview of Oracle ACFS
• Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
• High Availability NFS (HANFS) Overview
• Oracle ACFS Integration with Oracle ASM
• Oracle ACFS Administration
• Clusterware Resources and ACFS Administration
• ACFS and Dismount or Shutdown Operations