Oracle RAC training course content and Syllabus
Oracle RAC Course Content:
Grid Infrastructure: Clusterware and ASM
Oracle Grid Infrastructure
Explain the principles and purposes of clusters
Describe Cluster hardware best practices
Understand Oracle Clusterware Architecture
Describe how Grid Plug and Play affects Clusterware
Describe ASM architecture and components
Grid Infrastructure Installation
Perform pre-install tasks for Grid Infrastructure
Install Grid Infrastructure
Verify the installation
Configure ASM disk groups
Configure ASM volumes
Make ASM cluster file system
Mount ACFS volumes
Administering Oracle Clusterware
Display Clusterware management proficiency
Demonstrate OCR backup and recovery techniques
Managing Network Settings
Managing Clusterware
Perform prerequisite steps for extending a cluster
Use Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) to add a node to an Oracle Clusterware home
Use OUI to remove a node from an Oracle Clusterware home
Making Applications Highly Available With Oracle Clusterware
Describe the High Availability components of Oracle Clusterware
Contrast Policy-Managed and Administration Managed databases
Describe the functionality of server pools
Describe application placement policies
Create an application Virtual IP (VIP)
Manage application resources
Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware
Locate Oracle Clusterware log files
Gather all log files using diagcollection.pl
Enable resource debugging
Enable component-level debugging
Enable tracing for Java-based tools
Troubleshoot the Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) file
Administering ASM Instances
Understand and apply ASM initialization parameters
Manage ASM instances and associated processes
Monitor ASM using the V$ASM dynamic performance views
Administering ASM Disk Groups
Create and delete ASM disk groups
Set the attributes of an existing ASM disk group
Perform ongoing maintenance tasks on ASM disk groups
Explain key performance and scalability considerations for ASM disk groups
Administering ASM Files, Directories, and Templates
Use different client tools to access ASM files
Describe the format of a fully qualified ASM file name
Explain how ASM files, directories and aliases are created and managed
Understand and manage disk group templates
Administering ASM Cluster File Systems
Administer ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
Manage ASM volumes
Implement ASM Cluster File System
Manage ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
Use ACFS Snapshots
Using command line tools to Manage ACFS
Real Application Clusters
Real Application Clusters Database Installation
Install the Oracle database software
Create a cluster database
Perform post-database creation tasks
Perform a single instance to RAC conversion
RAC Database Administration
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
Managing Backup and Recovery for RAC
Configure the RAC database to use ARCHIVELOG mode and the flash recovery area
Recover from media failure and instance failures
Tune instance recovery in RAC
Configure RMAN for the RAC environment
RAC DB Monitoring and Tuning
Determine RAC-specific tuning components
Determine RAC-specific wait events, global enqueues, and system statistics
Implement the most common RAC tuning tips
Use the Cluster Database Performance pages
Use the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) in RAC
Use Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) in RAC
Services
Configure and manage services in a RAC environment
Use Services with client applications
Use services with the Database Resource Manager and scheduler
Configure services aggregation and tracing
High Availability Connections
Configure client-side, connect-time load balancing and connect-time failover
Configure server-side, connect-time load balancing
Use the Load Balancing Advisory
Describe the benefits of Fast Application Notification
Configure server-side callouts
Configure Transparent Application Failover
Design for High Availability
Design a Maximum Availability Architecture in your environment
Determine the best RAC and Data Guard topologies for your environment
Configure the Data Guard Broker configuration files in a RAC environment
Patch your RAC system in a rolling fashion
