Course Outline

Introduction

Overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

  • Introduction to Oracle RAC and its architecture
  • Benefits of RAC in high availability and scalability
  • Key components of RAC: Cluster nodes, Clusterware, and ASM

Grid Infrastructure Fundamentals

  • Understanding Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • Role of Oracle Clusterware in RAC
  • Overview of Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure

  • Hardware and software prerequisites for Grid Infrastructure
  • Installation and configuration of Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • Configuring network and storage for RAC

Preparing the Environment for RAC

  • Preparing shared storage with ASM
  • Configuring the network environment for RAC
  • Setting up SSH equivalency and user environments

Installing Oracle RAC

  • Step-by-step RAC installation process
  • Post-installation tasks for Oracle RAC
  • Verifying RAC installation and troubleshooting common issues

Administering RAC Databases

  • Creating and managing RAC databases
  • RAC-specific administration tasks
  • Understanding RAC database instances and services

Oracle Clusterware Administration

  • Managing Clusterware components: Voting disks and OCR
  • Configuring and managing High Availability Services (HAS)
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting Clusterware

RAC Backup and Recovery

  • Backup strategies for RAC environments
  • Performing backup and recovery in RAC
  • Using RMAN for RAC databases

Introduction to ASM

  • Understanding the architecture and benefits of ASM
  • ASM components: Disk groups, disks, and ASM instances
  • Installing and configuring ASM

Administering ASM Disk Groups

  • Creating and managing ASM disk groups
  • ASM disk group redundancy and performance
  • Monitoring and maintaining ASM disk groups

ASM Instance Management

  • Starting and stopping ASM instances
  • ASM instance parameters and tuning
  • ASM and Clusterware integration

ASM Backup and Recovery

  • Backup and recovery strategies for ASM
  • Using RMAN with ASM
  • Best practices for ASM management

RAC Performance Tuning

  • Tuning RAC database performance
  • Monitoring and optimizing RAC workloads
  • Using Oracle Enterprise Manager for RAC performance tuning

High Availability and Disaster Recovery in RAC

  • Implementing Oracle Data Guard with RAC
  • Configuring RAC for disaster recovery
  • RAC failover and switchover scenarios

RAC Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

  • Diagnosing and resolving RAC issues
  • Using Clusterware diagnostics and logs
  • Best practices for RAC troubleshooting

Patching and Upgrading RAC and Grid Infrastructure

  • Patching RAC databases and Grid Infrastructure
  • Performing rolling upgrades in RAC environments
  • Downtime minimization techniques during upgrades

Advanced ASM Features

  • Implementing ASM Flex and Flex Clusters
  • ASM cluster file system (ACFS) overview and configuration
  • ASM monitoring and alerting mechanisms

Advanced Grid Infrastructure Administration

  • Configuring and managing Oracle Flex Clusters
  • Managing Clusterware resources and services
  • Using Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and voting disk management

Securing RAC and Grid Infrastructure

  • Implementing security best practices in RAC environments
  • Configuring ASM security features
  • Managing user roles and privileges in Grid Infrastructure

Best Practices for RAC, ASM, and Grid Infrastructure

  • High availability and scalability best practices
  • Performance optimization strategies
  • Implementing automation for RAC and ASM management

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of Oracle database administration
  • Familiarity with SQL and PL/SQL

Audience

  • Database administrators
  • IT professionals
 35 Hours

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