Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC & Grid Infrastructure Administration

This Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC & Grid Infrastructure Administration course is designed for experienced database administrators who are required to plan, implement and administer Oracle Real Application Clusters configurations for Oracle databases.

The objective of this Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC & Grid Infrastructure Administration course is to provide the skills needed to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot Oracle RAC database configurations in an Oracle Grid Infrastructure environment.

Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC & Grid Infrastructure Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: ORACLE REAL APPLICATION CLUSTERS OVERVIEW

• Oracle RAC Features
• Oracle RAC Technology Hierarchy
• Oracle RAC Capabilities
• Oracle RAC Components
• Tools for Installing, Configuring and Managing Oracle RAC

Session 2: ORACLE GRID INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW

• Cluster Overview
• Grid Foundation Components and Architecture
• Oracle Clusterware Components and RAC
• Oracle Clusterware Software and Storage
• Oracle Storage Subsystems
• File Types used by a RAC Database
• Methods used to Share Database Files across a Cluster
• ASM Architecture
• Create and Manage ASM Disk Groups
• Create and Manage ASM Cluster Filesystems
• An Overview of RAC Services
• Network Requirements and Configuration
• Single Client Access Names
• Overview of Grid Plug and Play

Session 3: RAC INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION TASKS

• Oracle RAC Pre-installation Tasks
• Job Role Separation
• Create Oracle Groups, User Accounts and Directories
• Validate and Prepare the Hardware and the Operating System
• Configure RAC Nodes for Remote Access using SSH
• Configure the Network for RAC
• Configure the Startup Commands for the Oracle RAC Nodes
• Install and Configure ASMLIB

Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC & Grid Infrastructure Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 4: INSTALL ORACLE GRID INFRASTRUCTURE AND REAL APPLICATION CLUSTERS

• Install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• Use the Cluster Verification Utility
• Install Oracle Database Software and Create a Cluster Database
• Verify the Installation
• Post Installation Tasks
• Configure Client Connections with Oracle Net Manager
• Convert an Oracle Database to a RAC Database
• Use the DBCA for Single Instance Conversion
• Use rconfig for Single Instance Conversion
• RAC Specific Background Processes

Session 5: RAC CLUSTER DATABASE AND DATABASE INSTANCE ADMINISTRATION

• Administer Oracle RAC using Enterprise Manager
• Policy Managed and Administrator Managed Databases
• RAC Initialization Parameters
• Manage Undo Tablespaces in a RAC Environment
• Manage Redo Log Files and Groups in a RAC Environment
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Cluster Database Pages
• Start and Stop Oracle RAC Databases and Instances
• Administer Database Storage

Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC & Grid Infrastructure Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 6: ADMINISTER ORACLE CLUSTERWARE COMPONENTS

• CRS Resources and Daemon Functionality
• Manage Clusterware with Enterprise Manager
• CRSCTL Commands to Stop, Start and Administer Clusterware
• Backup and Recover Voting Disks
• Add and Remove Voting Disks
• The ocrcheck Utility
• The ocrdump Command
• Administer the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR)
• Locate OCR Automatic Backups
• Backup and Restore OCR
• Troubleshoot the OCR with ocrcheck

Session 7: ASM INSTANCE ADMINISTRATION

• ASM Overview
• ASM Components in RAC
• ASM Initialization Parameters
• Create an ASM Instance using ASMCA
• Start and Stop an ASM Instance using srvctl
• Start and Stop an ASM Instance using ASMCMD and ASMCA
• Start and Stop an ASM Instance Containing Cluster Files
• Start and Stop the ASM Listener

Session 8: ASM DISK GROUP ADMINISTRATION

• Create and Delete ASM Disk Groups
• ASM Disk Group Attributes
• ASM Disk Group Maintenance Tasks
• Preferred Read Failure Groups
• ASM Disk Statistics

Session 9: RAC MANAGEMENT COMMANDS

• RAC Management Commands
• RAC Administration with SVRCTL
• SVRCTL Cluster Database Configuration Tasks
• SVRCTL Cluster Database Administration Tasks
• Check the Current Configuration
• SVRCTL Command Summary
• Administer Databases and Instances
• Administer Services and Node Applications
• Bring a Cluster Database online and offline
• Introduction to CRS
• Cluster Services

Session 10: MANAGING THE DATABASE WORKLOAD USING SERVICES

• Manage the Database Workload using Services
• Create and Administer Services in a RAC Environment
• Services and Client Applications
• Manage Services with Enterprise Manager and from the Command Line
• Configure Oracle Net to Support Services
• Configure Service Level Thresholds
• Configure Clients for Failover

Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC & Grid Infrastructure Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 11: HIGH AVALABILITY OF CONNECTIONS

• RAC High Availability Framework
• Failure Detection with Cluster Services
• Oracle RAC and Hardware Failover
• Connection Failover
• Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
• Server, Client And Runtime Load Balancing
• Fast Application Notification (FAN)
• Server and Client Side Oracle Notification Services

Session 12: BACKUP AND RECOVER A RAC DATABASE

• Configure a Fast Recovery Area for use with RAC
• Tune Instance Recovery in RAC
• Parallel Recovery in RAC
• Initiate Archiving
• Configure RMAN Backup and Recovery Settings
• Backup a RAC Database using RMAN
• Restore and Recover a RAC Database using RMAN
• Display Backup Reports
• Best Practices and Tips for Backup and Recovery

Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC & Grid Infrastructure Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 5
Session 13: RAC PERFORMANCE TUNING

• Monitoring and Performance Guidelines
• RAC Monitoring Tools
• RAC Performance Recommendations
• Analyze Performance Issues
• Use the Automatic Workload Repository in RAC
• Use the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor in RAC
• Use Statspack with RAC
• Global Cache Services (GCS) Monitoring
• V$cache_transfer Views
• Monitor the GES Processes
• Monitor and Tune the RAC Cluster Environment using Enterprise Manager

Session 14: ADD AND DELETE NODES AND CLUSTERS

• Grid Plug and Play (GPnP)
• Prepare a New Node
• Extend the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home to the New Node
• Extend the Oracle RAC Home Directory
• Add the New Node to the Cluster
• Create an Instance on the New Node
• Delete an Instance from the Cluster Database
• Remove a Node from the Cluster

Session 15: MANAGE ORACLE SOFTWARE AND APPLY PATCHES

• Configure the EM Patch Interface
• Obtain Patches
• Apply Rolling Patches to a RAC System
• Apply a Patchset with the opatch Utility
• Apply a Patchset with OUI