Oracle 11g: RAC and Grid Infrastructure Administration Accelerated Release 2 NEW

This 11g RAC & Grid Infrastructure training teaches you to administer the Oracle Clusterware and storage products using both command line utilities and graphical tools. Troubleshoot by examining log files, enabling debugging and more.

Learn To:

• Describe the Oracle Database 11g Grid Infrastructure.
• Administer both Policy and Administrator managed RAC databases.
• Install and configure Grid Infrastructure.
• Describe Oracle Database 11g RAC enhancements and new features.
• Study the new connection architecture and how to make those connections highly available.
• Describe Grid Plug and Play.
• Administer cluster databases using Enterprise Manager and command-line utilities like SRVCTL, CRSCTL and SQL*Plus.
• Explore Oracle RAC One Node and online migration.

Benefits To You:

Ensure fast, reliable, secure and easy to manage performance. Optimize database workloads, lower IT costs and deliver a higher quality of service by enabling smooth and rapid consolidation within your Datacenter.

Backup & Recovery

Instructors will also review backup and recovery issues relative to cluster database environments. You'll deep dive into quality of service concepts as well.

Accelerated Pace

This is an accelerated course, covering 9 days worth of content in only 5 days. New materials and labs have been added to enhance your experience with the latest information. Because of this extra content, the duration each day can be slightly longer than usual.

Audience

• Database Administrators
• Data Warehouse Administrator
• Database Designers
• Support Engineer
• Technical Administrator

Course Topics Grid Infrastructure Concepts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Administering ASM Cluster File Systems

• ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
• Managing ASM Volumes
• Implementing ASM Cluster File System
• Managing ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
• ACFS Snapshots
• Using Command Line Tools To Manage ACFS

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

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

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

Monitoring and Tuning the RAC Database

• Determining 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

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

Design for High Availability

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

Course Objectives

• Understand Oracle Clusterware architecture
• Describe how Grid Plug and Play affects Clusterware
• Describe Automatic Storage Management (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
• Determine RAC-specific tuning components
• Configure and manage services in a RAC environment
• Describe high availability architectures