In this intensive course, you will learn about the Oracle Grid Infrastructure products, including Oracle Automatic Storage Manager (ASM), ASM Cluster File System (ACFS), and Oracle Clusterware. You'll learn to administer the Oracle Clusterware and storage products using both command-line utilities and graphical tools and to administer ASM and ACFS using both command-line and graphical user interface clients.

You will learn how to use the Oracle Clusterware to make applications highly available, supporting monitoring and failover to other nodes. You will learn to troubleshoot the Oracle Clusterware by examining log files, enabling debugging, and enabling tracing for various utilities.

You will learn about RAC database administration in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure environment and how to administer cluster databases using Enterprise Manager and command-line utilities such as SRVCTL, CRSCTL, and SQL*Plus. You will study the new connection architecture and learn how to make those connections highly available. You will examine backup and recovery issues relative to cluster database environments as well.

This is an accelerated course, covering seven days worth of content in only five days. The extra content to be accommodated each day requires that the duration of classes can be slightly longer than usual.

This course is based on Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

What You'll Learn

• Oracle Clusterware architecture
• How Grid Plug and Play affects Clusterware
• ASM architecture
• Perform Grid Infrastructure installation and create RAC database
• Demonstrate Clusterware management proficiency
• Manage application resources
• Troubleshoot Oracle Clusterware
• Administer ASM Instances and disk groups
• Administer ASM Cluster File Systems
• Install Oracle Database 11gR2 software and create RAC database
• Manage RAC databases
• Manage backup and recovery for RAC
• RAC-specific tuning components
• Configure and manage services in a RAC environment
• High availability architectures

Who Needs to Attend

Data warehouse administrators, support engineers, technical administrators, and database administrators and designers

Prerequisites

Oracle Database Administration experience

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

1. Grid Infrastructure Concepts

• What is a Cluster?
• Grid Foundation Components
• Oracle Clusterware Architecture
• Oracle Clusterware Software and Storage
• ASM Architecture
• Creating and Managing ASM Disk Groups
• Creating and Managing ASM Cluster Filesystems
• Job Role Separation

2. Grid Infrastructure Installation and Configuration

• Hardware Requirements
• Network Requirements
• DNS and DHCP Configuration
• Grid Plug and Play Considerations
• Single Client Access Names
• Post Installation Tasks

3. Administering Oracle Clusterware

• Managing Clusterware with Enterprise Manager
• Determining the Location of the Oracle Clusterware Configuration Files
• Backing Up and Recovering the Voting Disk
• Adding, Deleting, or Migrating Voting Disks
• Locating the OCR Automatic Backups
• Oracle Local Registry
• Migrating OCR Locations to ASM
• Managing Network Settings

4. Managing Oracle Clusterware

• Prerequisite Steps for Extending a Cluster
• Using addNode.sh to Add a Node to a Cluster
• Rolling Patches and Rolling Upgrades
• Comparing Software Versions with the Active Version
• Installing a Patchset with the OUI Utility
• Installing a Patch with the Opatch Utility

5. Oracle Clusterware High Availability

• Oracle Clusterware High Availability Components
• Contrasting Policy-Managed and Administration Managed Databases
• Server Pool Functionality
• The Generic and Free Server Pools
• Application Placement Policies
• Application Virtual IPs
• Managing Application Resources
• High Availability Events

6. Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

• Oracle Clusterware Log Files
• Gathering Log Files Using diagcollection.pl
• Resource Debugging
• Component-Level Debugging
• Tracing for Java-based Tools
• Troubleshooting the Oracle Cluster Registry

7. Administering ASM Instances

• ASM Initialization Parameters
• Adjusting ASM Instance Parameters in SPFILEs
• Starting and Stopping ASM Instances Using srvctl
• Starting and Stopping ASM Instances Using ASMCA and ASMCMD
• Starting and Stopping ASM Instances Containing Cluster Files
• Starting and Stopping the ASM Listener

8. Administering ASM Disk Groups

• Creating and Deleting ASM Disk Groups
• ASM Disk Group Attributes
• ASM Disk Group Maintenance Tasks
• Preferred Read Failure Groups
• Viewing ASM Disk Statistics
• Performance and Scalability Considerations for ASM Disk Groups

9. ASM Files, Directories, and Templates

• Using Different Client Tools to Access ASM Files
• Fully Qualified ASM File Name Format
• Creating and Managing ASM files, Directories, and Aliases
• Managing Disk Group Templates
• Managing ASM ACL with Command Line Utilities
• Managing ASM ACL with Enterprise Manager

10. Administering ASM Cluster File Systems

• ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
• Managing ASM Volumes
• Implementing ASM Cluster File System
• Managing ACFS
• ACFS Snapshots
• Using Command-Line Tools to Manage ACFS

11. Real Application Clusters Database Installation

• Installing the Oracle Database Software
• Creating a Cluster Database
• Post-Database Creation Tasks
• Single-Instance Conversion Using the DBCA
• Single-Instance Conversion Using rconfig
• Background Processes Specific to Oracle RAC

12. Oracle RAC Administration

• Enterprise Manager Cluster Database Pages
• Redo Log Files in a RAC Environment
• Undo Tablespaces in a RAC Environment
• Starting and Stopping RAC Databases And Instances
• Initialization Parameters in a RAC Environment
• Transparent Data Encryption and Wallets in RAC
• Quiescing RAC Databases

13. Managing Backup and Recovery for RAC

• Protecting Against Media Failure
• Parallel Recovery in RAC
• Archived Log File Configurations
• RAC Backup and Recovery Using EM
• Archived Redo File Conventions in RAC
• Channel Connections to Cluster Instances
• Distribution of Backups

14. Monitoring and Tuning the RAC Database

• RAC-Specific Tuning Components
• Tuning Instance Recovery in RAC
• RAC-Specific Wait Events, Global Enqueues, and System Statistics
• Implementing the Most Common RAC Tuning Tips
• Using the Cluster Database Performance Pages
• Using the Automatic Workload Repository in RAC
• Using Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor in RAC

15. Services

• Configure and Manage Services in a RAC environment
• Using Services with Client Applications
• Using Services with the Database Resource Manager
• Use Services with the Scheduler
• Configuring Services Aggregation and Tracing
• Managing Services From the Command Line
• Managing Services With Enterprise Manager

16. Design for High Availability

• Designing a Maximum Availability Architecture
• Best RAC and Data Guard Topologies
• Data Guard Broker Configuration files in a RAC Environment
• Successful Disk I/O Strategies