Course Content

    Introduction to Grid Infrastructure

  • What is a Cluster?
  • What is a Flex Cluster?
  • Clusterware Characteristics
  • Oracle Clusterware
  • Hardware and Software Concepts (High level)
  • Shared Storage Overview

    • Oracle Clusterware Architecture

  • Cluster Storage Requirements
  • Clusterware Initialization and OHASD
  • Clusterware Process Architecture
  • Location Independent Names, Addresses and Name Resolution (GNS, SCAN, VIP..)
  • Shared GNS Background and Architecture
  • Configuring shared GNS
  • Migrating to shared GNS
  • Moving GNS to Another Cluster
  • Flex Cluster Architecture

    • Flex Cluster Architecture

  • Configuring Flex Cluster
  • Flex Clusters and Node Failure

    • Grid Infrastructure Pre-Installation Tasks

  • Shared Storage for Oracle Clusterware
  • Checking System Requirements
  • Single Client Access Name for the Cluster
  • Redundant Interconnect Usage
  • Kernel Requirements
  • Groups and Users
  • Shell Settings
  • Oracle Validated Configuration

    • Installing Grid Infrastructure

  • Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • Installing Flex Cluster
  • Verifying the Oracle Clusterware Installation

    • Managing Cluster Nodes

  • Adding Oracle Clusterware Homes
  • Prerequisites for Running addNode.sh
  • Adding a Node with addNode.sh
  • Configuring the node role
  • Removing a Node from the Cluster

    • Traditional Clusterware Management

  • Oracle Clusterware startup and shutdown
  • Administering the Voting Disk file
  • Administering the Oracle Cluster Registry Disk file
  • Network Administration
  • What-If Command Evaluation
  • Clusterware Admin Tools Review

    • Policy-Based Cluster Management

  • Policy-Based Cluster Management Overview
  • Server Categorization
  • Policy Set

    • Patching Grid Infrastructure

  • Out-of-Place Oracle Clusterware Upgrade
  • Types of Patches
  • Obtaining Oracle Clusterware Patches
  • Rolling Patches
  • Installing a Rolling Patchset with OUI
  • OPatch Overview
  • Installing a Rolling Patch with OPatch
  • OPatch Automation

    • Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

  • Diagnostic Framework Support for CRS
  • Cluster Health Monitor Enhancements Overview
  • Component level checks - cluvfy with -comp
  • Resource Debugging - Java Tools and Dynamic Debugging
  • Troubleshooting Node Evictions
  • Log files and Diagnostic Collection
  • The oclumon Utility

    • Making Applications Highly Available

  • Overview of Using Oracle Clusterware to Enable HA
  • Oracle Clusterware HA Components
  • Resource Management Options
  • Server Pools
  • Overall flow diagram of HA lifecycle
  • Clusterware Resource Modeling
  • Creating an Application VIP
  • ONS and FAN overviews

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service Overview

  • Introducing Exadata Cloud Service
  • Service Configuration Options & Service Connection Options
  • Service Architecture & Availability
  • Management Responsibilities
  • Storage Configuration & Management Details
  • Simple Web-Based Provisioning & Management
  • REST APIs
  • Migrating to Exadata Cloud Service

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