12c ORACLE RAC DBA Course Topics:

 

Available Courses:-

• 11gr2/12c Oracle DBA.
• 11gr2/12c Oracle RAC DBA.
• 12c Oracle Golden Gate.
• Shell/Perl scripting.

 

Course Name: - 12c Oracle RAC DBA

Course Duration: - Every day 90 minutes -- 30days (45 Hrs.)

Pre-requisite Knowledge: - Oracle DBA

 

Audience (Who can learn the RAC DBA):-

Administrator

Database Administrators

Technical Consultant

 

What you will learn from expert & experienced Real Time Professionals?

Describe the Oracle Cluster-ware architecture

Explain the principles and purposes of clusters

Describe the benefits of Oracle RAC

Describe global cache coordination

Explain the necessity of global resources

Describe how Grid Plug and Play affects Cluster-ware

Install the Grid-Infrastructure software & Oracle Database software

Define redo log files in a RAC environment

Define undo tablespaces in a RAC environment

Create database and Perform post-database-creation tasks

Modify initialization parameters in a RAC environment

Configure RMAN for the RAC environment

Configure the RAC database to use ARCHIVELOG mode and the fast recovery area

Convert a single-instance Oracle Database to RACs

Create a cluster database

Start and stop RAC databases and instances

 

Module 1 - BASIC OVERVIEW & CONCEPT

Chapter 1 - Grid Infrastructure Overview

What is Cluster?

What is Cluster-ware and Oracle Cluster-ware?

Oracle Flex Cluster, Hub Nodes, Leaf Nodes & its scalability

Oracle Cluster-ware Networking

Oracle Cluster-ware Initialization

GPnP Architecture: Overview & How it helps to Cluster Node Startup

Grid Naming Service (GNS)

Single Client Access Name

Client Database Connection

What is Oracle ASM?

ASM CloudFS and ACFS

Oracle Flex ASM

ASM Feature & Benefits

 

Chapter 2 - RAC Databases Overview & Architecture 11gr2 & 12c

Overview of Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster)

Typical Oracle RAC Architecture

RAC One Node Single-Instance High Availability

Oracle RAC One Node

Oracle RAC One Node and Oracle Cluster-ware

Oracle Cluster-ware Storage Solution

Oracle Cluster File System

Oracle RAC and Network Connectivity

Benefits of Using Real Application Cluster

Cluster and Scalability & Level of Scalability

Scaleup, Speedup and Workloads

I/O Throughput Balanced: Example

Necessity of Global Resources

Additional Memory Requirement for RAC

Parallel Execution with RAC

 

Chapter 3 - Checklist to Install Grid Infrastructure software & RAC

Overview of 11gr2 & 12c Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI)

Server Hardware requirement for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Operating System requirement for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Server Configuration requirement for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Network requirement for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Storage requirement for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

User Environment Configuration requirement for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Chapter 4 - Overview of Oracle Cluster-ware & Its Components

What is Oracle Cluster-ware?

What is OCR (Oracle Cluster Registry)?

What is Voting Disk?

Concept of Virtual IPs

Concept of Single Client Access Name (SCAN)

SCAN VIP & SCAN Listeners

SCAN & DNS Server

SCAN & Host Files

Node Related Listener

 

Chapter 5 - Overview & Benefits Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

Overview of Oracle ASM

ASM Placement in Storage Stack

ASM Features & Advantage

ASM Instance & Parameters

ASM Disks & ASM Disk-Groups

ASM Disk-Group Redundancy

ASM Failure Group

ASM Files & Directories

Disk Group Rebalance

ASM Extents & Allocation Units

ASM Limits

Overview of 12c Flex Cluster Architecture & Flex ASM.

 

Module - 2 INSTALLATION & CONFIGURATION

Chapter 6 - Grid Infrastructure Pre-Installation Tasks

Verify System Requirement

Verify & Configure the Network Requirement

Install & Prepare the Required Operating System Packages, Set the Kernel Parameters

Create Group & Users & Configure the SSH (Password less connectivity)

Create Required Directories for Grid Infrastructure & RAC Database Installation

Configure the Shared Storage & Create the Oracle ASM Disk OR Disk Group

Configure the Required Owner Shell Limits

 

Chapter 7 - Installation of ORACLE 12c Grid Infrastructure software

Verify the Installation Requirement using Cluster Verification Utility

Install & Verify the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software

 

Chapter 8 - Installation of ORACLE 12c Software & RAC Database creation

Installing Oracle 12c Software with Proper location

Creating RAC Database and verify

 

Module - 3 CONTROLLING & ADMINISTERING GRID INFRASTRUCTURE

Chapter 9 - Controlling and Managing Oracle Cluster-ware & Itâ??s Services

Use Cases of Oracle Cluster-ware

Oracle Cluster-ware Components, Processes & Services

Local & Cluster level Resources

Controlling & Verifying Oracle Cluster-ware using CRSCTL & SRVCTL utility

Star & Stop Oracle Cluster-ware & Oracle High Availability Services (OHAS)

Enable & Disable Oracle Cluster-ware & Oracle High Availability Services (OHAS)

Controlling the OCR & Voting disk using OCRCHECK, OCRCONFIG & OCRDUMP Utilities

Determine the location of Cluster Configuration files (OCR & Voting Disk)

Check the Integrity of Cluster Configuration files

Locating the OCR Auto-backup & Changing the Location of OCR Auto-backup

Manual Backup & Restore of OCR & Voting Disk

Controlling OLR (Oracle Local Registry)

Overview on (Oracle Interface Configuration) OIFCFG utility

 

Chapter 10 â?? Administrating 12c Flex Cluster-ware

Verifying the Cluster mode

Verifying the Role Node (Hub/Leaf)

Verifying the Oracle ASM mode

Listing the ASM Instances & Listeners

 

Chapter 11 â?? Oracle Cluster-ware Log & Use Case of ADRCI Utility

ADR Directory Structure & ADRCI

Oracle Cluster-ware trace files and Alert Log file

Normal trace files & Incident Trace files

Collecting Oracle Cluster-ware Diagnostic data

Purging Automatic Workload Repository (All Incidents & Trace Files)

Diagnostics Collection Script

 

Chapter 12 â?? Cluster-ware Health Monitor & Advisor

Overview of monitoring Oracle Cluster-ware

Cluster Health Monitor (CHM) & Cluster Health Advisor (CHA)

Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR)

Collecting CHM data

Managing CHM with OCLUMON

Chapter 13 â?? Cluster-ware Health Checkup via CVU utility

Cluster Verification Utility Overview

Verify Cluster Components using CVU

Cluster Verify Locations

Cluster Verify Configuration files

 

Chapter 14 â?? Administrating ASM Instance

Parameters related to ASM Instance

Parameter files for ASM Instance

Modifying the ASM Parameters

Managing ASM password files

Shared Oracle ASM Password file in Disk-Group

Start & Stop ASM Instance using SRVCTL utility

ASM Dynamic Performance Views

 

Chapter 15 â?? Administrating ASM Disks & Disk-Groups

Overview of Disks & Disk Groups

Create the New Disks

Create the New Disk Group using SQL*Plus & ASMCA

Altering the Disk Groups

Adding, Removing & Renaming the Disk Groups

Resizing the Disks in Disk Group

Attributes & Viewing the Attributes of Disk Groups

Checking the consistency of Disk Group Metadata

Mounting & Dismounting the Disk Groups

Dropping the Disks from Existing Disk Groups

Dropping the Disk Groups

ASM Failure Groups

 

Chapter 16 â?? Administrating ASM Files, Directories & Templates

Interaction between Database Instances & ASM Instances

Accessing ASM Files by using RMAN

Accessing ASM Files by Using DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER

Accessing ASM Files by Using ASMCMD

View ASM Aliases, Files, and Directories

ASM ACL (Access Control Lists) Disk Group Attributes

Managing ASM ACL with ASMCMD & SQL*Plus commands

 

 

 

Chapter 17 â?? Overview of Oracle Cloud FS

Overview of Oracle Cloud File System

ASM files and Volumes

ACFS & ADVM Architecture Overview & Itâ??s Processes

Using ASMCMD for Dynamic Volumes

Configuration Settings for Database Files

List of ACFS Views

Oracle Cloud FS Advanced Topics

 

Module - 4 CONTROLLING & ADMINISTERING ORACLE RAC DBs

Chapter 18 â?? Oracle RAC Database Overview & Architecture

Overview of Oracle RAC Database

Typical Architecture of Oracle RAC Database

Oracle Cluster-ware Storage Solution

Global Resource in RAC

Need of GCS, GES & GRD (Global Resource Directory)

Concept of Cache Fusion

 

Chapter 19 â?? Administering Oracle RAC Database & Instance

Overview of RAC DB Administration

Starting & Stopping RAC Instance with SQL*Plus and SRVCTL utility

Starting & Stopping Pluggable Database in Oracle RAC

Switch between Automatic & Manual Database Restart Policy

RAC Initialization Parameter files

SPFILE Parameter Values and RAC

Parameter Files Search Order in Oracle RAC

Parameters that Require Identical Settings & Parameters that Require Unique Settings

Terminating Sessions in Oracle RAC Database

 

Chapter 20 â?? Managing Backup & Recovery for Oracle RAC Database

Overview Instance Recovery & Database Availability

Instance Recovery on RAC DB concepts

RAC and the Fast Recovery Area

Enable Archive log mode in RAC

Configuring RMAN Snapshot Control file Location

Configuring Control file and SPFILE auto backup

Channel Connections to RAC Instances

Configuring Non-Cluster & Local Archiving

Restore & Recovery on Oracle RAC DB

Cloning of Oracle RAC DB

Chapter 21 â?? Managing High Availability of Services

Service Usage in Oracle RAC Database

Characteristics of a Service

Default Service Connections & How to Restricted Service Registration

Create the Services with Preferred & Available Instance

Managing Services with SRVCTL utility

Using Services as TNS Entry for Client Applications

Services & Connection Load Balancing

Services and Transparent Application Failover (TAF)

Define a TAF Policy for a Service

TAF Configuration on Server Side & Client Site

Lists of Service Performance Views

 

Chapter 22 â?? Migrating File System Database to ASM

Why migrate to ASM?

 Basic concepts of migrating to ASM

 Preparing to migrate to ASM

 Migrating Database to ASM

 

Chapter 23 â?? Converting Single Instance Database to Multi-node (RAC) Database

Overview of different Methods/Tools

 About RCONFIG utility

 Preparing XML file

 Converting to RAC using RCONFIG

 Verifying the conversion

 

Chapter 24 â?? Upgrading & Patching Oracle RAC Database

Patch & Patch-set Overview

Types of Patches

Configuring the Software Library

Downloading the Patches

Reducing the Downtime Patching for Oracle RAC Database

OPatch Overview, General Use & OPatch Automation

Rolling Patch

Out-of-Place Oracle RAC DB upgrade with OUI