- Identify Real Application Clusters components
- Install, create, administer, and monitor a Real Application Clusters database
- Use configuration and management tools for Real Application Clusters databases
- Setup services for workloads management, and applications high availability
- Develop a backup and recovery strategy for Real Application Clusters databases
- Configure and monitor Oracle Clusterware resources
- Review high availability best practices
Identify Real Application Clusters components
- Understand Real Application Clusters
- Clusters Scalability and High Availability
- The Necessity of Global Resources
- Parallel Execution with RAC
- RAC Software and Database Principles
- RAC and Shared Storage Technologies
- Understand VIPs
- Describe the benefits of Fast Application Notification
Install, create, administer, and monitor a Real Application Clusters database
- Describe the installation of Oracle RAC 10g
- Perform RAC pre-installation tasks
- Perform cluster setup tasks
- Install Oracle Clusterware
- Install and configure Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
- Install the Oracle database software
- Create a cluster database
- Install the Enterprise Manager agent on each cluster node
Use configuration and management tools for Real Application Clusters databases
- Use Enterprise Manager cluster database pages
- Define redo log files in a RAC environment
- Define undo tablespaces in a RAC environment
- Start and stop RAC databases and instances
- Modify initialization parameters in a RAC environment
- Manage ASM instances in a RAC environment
- Determine RAC-specific wait events, global enqueues, and system statistics
- Implement the most common RAC tuning tips
Setup services for workloads management, and applications high availability
- Configure and manage services in a RAC environment
- Set performance-metric thresholds on services
- Configure services aggregation and tracing
- Configure server-side connect-time load balancing
- Use the Load Balancing Advisory
- Configure server-side callouts
- Configure the server- and client-side ONS
- Configure Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
Develop a backup and recovery strategy for Real Application Clusters databases
- Configure the RAC database to use ARCHIVELOG mode and the flash recovery area
- Configure RMAN for the RAC environment
Configure and monitor Oracle Clusterware resources
- Manually control the Oracle Clusterware stack
- Change voting disk and OCR configuration
- Back up or recover your voting disks and OCR files
- Change VIP addresses
- Use the CRS framework
- Oracle Clusterware diagnostic files
- Enable Oracle Clusterware debugging
Review high availability best practices
- Add a new node to your cluster database
- Remove a node from your cluster database
- Design a Maximum Availability Architecture in your environment
- Decide on the best ASM configuration to use
- Patch your RAC system in a rolling fashion