Oracle Database 11g: RAC Administration Release 2

What you will learn:

In this course, students will learn about RAC database administration in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure environment. Students will learn to administer cluster databases using Enterprise Manager and command-line utilities like SRVCTL, CRSCTL, and SQL*Plus. Students will study the new connection architecture and how to make those connections highly available. Backup and recovery issues relative to cluster database environments will also be studied.

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

Learn To:

• Administer both Policy and Administrator managed RAC databases
• Install and configure 11gR2 RAC software
• Describe backup and recovery in a RAC environment
• Create and configure a RAC database.
• Use Services
• Describe Oracle Database 11gR2 RAC enhancements and new features

Audience: Data Warehouse Administrator
Database Designers
Technical Administrator
Technical Consultant
System Analysts
Support Engineer
Functional Implementer
Database Administrators

Prerequisites: Oracle Database 11g: Introduction to SQL Release 2, Oracle Database 11g: Administration Workshop II Release 2, Oracle Database 11g: Administration Workshop I Release 2

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Relevant Certification:

Course Objectives:

• Install Oracle 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.
• Describe how Grid Plug and Play affects Clusterware

Course Topics:

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