Detailed Course Outline
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