Detailed Course Outline
Grid Infrastructure Overview and Review
- What is a Cluster?
- What is a Flex Cluster
- Clusterware Characteristics
- Oracle Clusterware
- Hardware and Software Concepts (High level)
RAC Databases Overview & Architecture
- Overview of Oracle RAC
- RAC One Node
- Cluster-Aware Storage Solutions
- Benefits of Using RAC
- Scaleup and Speedup
- I/O Throughput Balanced
- Global Resources
- RAC and Flex ASM
Installing and Configuring Oracle RAC
- Installing the Oracle Database Software
- Installation options
- Creating the Cluster Database
- Post-installation Tasks
- Single Instance to RAC Conversion
- Cleaning Up Unsuccessful Installs
Oracle RAC Administration
- Parameters and RAC - SPFILE, Identical and Unique Parameters
- Instance Startup, Shutdown and Quiesce
- Undo Tablespaces
- Redo Threads
- Use Enterprise Manager Cluster Database Pages
- RAC Alerts
- RAC Metrics
- Session management on RAC instances
RAC Backup and Recovery
- Instance Failure And Recovery In RAC - LMON and SMON
- Redo Threads and Archive Log Configurations and Admin
- Parameter Settings Affecting Parallel Recovery and MTTR
- Instance Failure And Recovery In RAC - LMON and SMON
- RAC and the Fast Recovery Area
- RMAN Configuration
- RMAN Admin For RAC: Channels, Instances, Backup Distribution
- RMAN Restore And Recovery RAC Considerations
RAC Global Resource Management and Cache Fusion
- Globally Managed Resources and Management
- Library Cache Management
- Row cache management
- Buffer cache fusion
- Buffer Cache Management Requirements
- Accessing single blocks in RAC
- Multi-block read considerations in RAC
- Undo and read consistency considerations in RAC
RAC Monitoring and Tuning
- OCPU and Wait Time Latencies
- Wait Events for RAC
- Common RAC Tuning
- Session and System Statistics
- RAC specific V$ Views
- Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor for RAC
Managing High Availability of Services in a RAC Environment
- Oracle Services
- Services for Policy - and Administrator-Managed Databases
- Creating Services
- Managing Services
- Use Services with Client Applications
- Services and Connection Load Balancing
- Services and Transparent Application Failover
- Services and the Resource Manager
Managing High Availability of Connections
- Types of Workload Distribution
- Client-Side Load Balancing
- Server-Side Load Balancing
- Runtime Connection Load Balancing and Connection Pools
- Fast Application Notification
- The Load Balancing Advisory FAN Event
- Server-Side Callouts
- Configuring the Server-Side ONS
Upgrading and Patching RAC
- Overview of Upgrades and Patching
- Release and Patch Set Upgrades
- PSU, CPU and Interim Patches
- Merge Patches
- Performing Out Of Place Database Upgrades
- Planning and Preparing for Upgrade
- Performing Out of Place Release Install or Upgrade
- Post Upgrade Tasks
Application Continuity
- What is AC?
- What problem does it solve?
- Benefits of AC
- How AC works
- AC Architecture
- Side Effects
- Restrictions
- Application requirements
Quality of Service Management
- QOS Management concepts
- Describe the benefits of using QoS Management
- QoS Management components
- QoS Management functionality
RAC One Node
- RAC One Node Concepts
- Online database migration
- Adding Oracle RAC One Node Database to an Existing Cluster
- Convert an Oracle RAC One Node database to a RAC database
- Convert an Oracle RAC database to a RAC One Node database
- Use DBCA to convert a single instance database to a RAC One Node database
Design for High Availability
- Causes of Planned and Unplanned Down Time
- Oracle’s Solution to Down Time
- RAC and Data Guard
- Maximum Availability Architecture
- Fast-Start Failover
- Hardware Assisted Resilient Data
- Database High Availability Best Practices
- RAID Configuration for High Availability