Oracle RAC Online Training Course Content

1. Introduction   

  • What is  a ClusterOracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
  • Advantage of using RAC
  • Clusters High Availability, Scalability and Performance
  • Oracle Real Application Clusters Architecture 
  • Cache fusion
  • Multi instance transaction behaviour
  • Extra background process in RAC

2. Installation of Oracle Clusterware (CRS) and configuration  

  • Oracle RAC 10g Installation: Outline 
  • Pre-Installation Tasks 
  • Hardware Requirements 
  • Network Requirements 
  • The oracle User Environment Setup & User Shell Limits 
  • Linux Operating System Parameters 
  • Cluster Setup Tasks 
  • Storage for Cluster
  • Oracle Cluster Registry File 
  • Voting Disk File 
  • Verifying the Oracle Clusterware Installation
  • Cluster verify utility (CLUVFY)

3. ASM with RAC  

  • ASM Overview
  • Installation of ASM Instances
  • Managing ASM Disk Groups and Instances.
  • ASM CMD

4. RAC Software Installation & Database Creation 

  • Oracle database software installation
  • Cluster database creation 
  • Post installation tasks

5. Oracle Clusterware Administration & Debugging 

  • Oracle Cluster registry (OCR)
  • Voting disk
  • VIP Addresses
  • Debugging  Clusterware log files
  •  Workload distribution
  • Transparent application failover

 

 

6. RAC Administration  

  • Starting and Stopping RAC Instances
  • Creating and Registering Instances 
  • Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
  • Database files with RAC
  • Initialization Parameter Files
  • Trace & Alert logs.
  • Undo management
  • Temporary table space monitoring

7. RAC Services 

  • What is a Service
  • Advantage of using service
  • Possible service configuration
  • Creation and maintenance of services using SRVCTL, DBCA,EM
  • Statistics gathering and tracing to check performance of Services
  • Service performance views
  • Workload distribution
  • Transparent application failover

8. Performance Monitoring 

  • Finding & Monitoring the Sessions
  • Session and system statistics
  • Finding and Resolving Locks across Instances
  • Cache Fusion impact & events in RAC
  • Wait events & Wait event views
  • Generating AWR Snapshots & Reports in RAC
  • Doing ADDM analysis

9. Backup and Recovery in RAC   

    • Protecting Against Media Failure
    • Archived Log File Configurations & Conventions
    • RAC and the Flash Recovery Area 
    • Oracle Recovery Manager
    • Distribution of Backups