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Course Materials

Slides
Lab Guide
Introduction to Oracle RAC

Overview of Single Instance Database
Overview of Oracle RAC
Infrastructure requirements for RAC
Overview of Oracle Grid Infrastructure

What is Oracle Grid Infrastructure?
Storage Concepts - File System, Volume Manager, RAID
Oracle ASM Concepts
Oracle Clusterware Concepts
RAC Installation

Overview of RAC Installation
Roadmap to RAC Installation
Creating Node1 (Linux VM)

Installing VirtualBox Software
Creating the Virtual Machine (VM)
📖 Suggested Reading...
Downloading Oracle Linux
Planning Disk Partitions and IP Addresses for Installation
Installing Linux
Oracle Linux Post Install Configuration
Preparing Node1

Overview of Prerequisites for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Installation
How to Configure Prerequisites for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Installation?
Configuring Prerequisites for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Installation
Creating Node2

Cloning and Creating Node2
Creating Node3 (optional)

Cloning and Creating Node3 (optional)
Configuring Shared Storage

Planning of Shared Storage
Creating the Disks to be used as Shared Storage
Making the Disks Sharable
Attaching the Disks to both Nodes
Creating Partitions on the Disks
Creating ASM Disks
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software

Downloading Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
Extracting Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
Setup Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
Installing Oracle Database Software

Downloading Oracle Database Software
Extracting Oracle Database Software
Setup Oracle Database Software
Creating RAC Database

Creating ASM Disk Groups required for RAC Database
Creating RAC Database
Summary of the Installed System

Summary of the Installed RAC System
Setting Environment Variables

Setting Environment Variables
How to Start/Stop RAC Nodes?

Starting/Stopping a Particular Node
Starting/Stopping All Nodes
Administering Oracle Clusterware

About Oracle Clusterware
About Oracle Clusterware Startup
About Managing Oracle Clusterware
Lab Practice: Managing Clusterware Startup and Shutdown
About Oracle Clusterware Resources
Lab Practice: Managing Oracle Clusterware Resources
Managing SCAN
Managing Listeners
Managing ASM Instances, RAC Database, RAC Database Instances
Managing Voting Disks
Lab Practices: Managing Voting Disks
Managing OCR, OLR
Lab Practices: Managing OCR, OLR
Oracle Clusterware Diagnostic Data
Cluster Verification Utility (CVU)
RAC Concepts

Single Instance DB Vs RAC DB
Global Resource Management in RAC
Administering RAC Database

Tools for Administering RAC Database
Starting and Stopping RAC Database
Data Dictionary in RAC
Managing Initialization Parameters in RAC
Configuring Client Connections in RAC
Using Services in RAC

Overview of Database Services
Lab Practice: High Availability of Services
Lab Practice: Transparent Application Continuity (TAC)
Applying Patches to RAC Database

Overview of Patching RAC Database
Listing Installed Patches
About Grid Infrastructure Release Updates
Downloading the Patches from MoS
Links to download Patches
Applying GI RU in Rolling Fashion
Converting to RAC

Overview of Converting Single Instance Database to RAC
Creating Single Instance Database
Lab Practice: Converting to RAC
🆓 BONUS LESSON 1 (Self-study only): Using RMAN in RAC 🆓

Using RMAN in RAC
🆓 BONUS LESSON 2(Self-study only): Adding New Node to RAC 🆓

Creating New Node
Configuring Prerequisites for Grid Infrastructure Installation
Adding New Node to Cluster
Extending Oracle RAC to New Node and Creating New Instance
🆓 BONUS LESSON 3(self-study only): Deleting Node from RAC 🆓

Deleting Node from RAC
🆓 BONUS LESSON 4(self-study only): Upgrading RAC Database 🆓

Creating Linux VM
Configuring Prerequisites for GI Installation
Clone and Create Second Node
Configure Shared Storage
Installing GI Software
Installing Oracle Database Software
Installing Mandatory Patches
Creating RAC Database
Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure
Upgrading RAC Database
🆓 BONUS LESSON 5(self-study only): ASM Administration 🆓

Administering ASM Instance
Administering ASM Disk Groups - Part1
Administering ASM Disk Groups - Part2
Administering Flex Disk Groups
Using ASMCA
Using ASMCMD
Administering ASM Files and Directories
ASM Diagnostic Data

Managing Voting Disks

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