Oracle Database 12c R2: High Availability New Features (D101285) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Cluster Types and Installation Options
  • Stand-alone (Traditional Cluster)
  • Oracle Domain Services Cluster
  • Oracle Member Clusters
  • Oracle Extended Clusters (Stretch Cluster)
  • Installation Options
  • Shared Grid Naming Service (GNS) High Availability
  • Shared GIMR
  • Rapid Home Provisioning Enhancements
Clusterware Manageability Enhancements
  • Enhanced (Reasoned) Command Evaluation (Why-If)
  • Clusterware Resource Groups
  • Server Weight-Based Node Eviction
  • Load-Aware Resource Placement
Clusterware Monitoring and Miscellaneous Enhancements
  • Oracle Autonomous Health Framework
  • Cluster Resource Activity Log
  • Private Network IPv6 Support
Oracle ASM Manageability New Features
  • Flex Disk Groups
  • File Groups
  • Quota Groups
  • Prioritized Rebalancing for Oracle ASM File Groups
  • Oracle ASM Mirror Splitting
  • Prioritized Rebalancing for File Groups
  • Oracle ASM Extended Support for 4K Sector Size
  • Oracle IOServer: DBs on Leaf Nodes
ACFS Manageability New Features
  • Snapshot Enhancements
  • Oracle ACFS Automatic Resize
  • Oracle ACFS Metadata Acceleration
  • Oracle ACFS NAS Maximum Availability eXtensions
ACFS Performance Enhancements
  • Oracle ACFS Defragger
  • Oracle ACFS Compression
  • Oracle ACFS Sparse Files
  • Oracle ACFS Metadata Acceleration
Oracle RAC New Features
  • Separation of Duty for Administering Oracle RAC
  • Oracle Real Application Clusters Reader Nodes
  • SCAN Listener and HTTP Protocol
  • Service-Oriented Buffer Cache Access
  • In-Memory FastStart
  • QoS Support for Administrator-Managed Databases
Data Guard Configuration Enhancements
  • Standby Database Creation Using DBCA
  • New Initialization Parameters
  • Detecting Lost Writes Using DBMS_DBCOMP.DBCOMP
  • Rolling Upgrade Support for Multitenant Databases
  • Upgrading Databases Using Oracle Label Security or Database Vault With Oracle Data Guard
  • Far Sync Instance Creation using RMAN DUPLICATE with FARSYNC Option
  • Automatic Propagation of Password File Changes
  • Support of In-Memory Column Store in Active Data Guard Environments
Data Guard Broker Enhancements
  • Multiple Fast-Start Failover Target Selection
  • High Availability Observer Configuration
  • Configurable Property, DataGuardSyncLatency
  • Data Validation and Lost Write Detection using VALIDATE DATABASE DATAFILE
  • Validation of Database Files on both Primary and Standby using the VALIDATE DATABASE DATAFILE command
  • Using Broker Property ApplyInstances to Engage Multi-Instance Redo Apply
  • DGMGRL Command Script Support @name
  • Enhanced Broker Support for Application Continuity