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Jesse, Scott; Burton, Bill; and Vongray, Bryan. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability: Maximize Your Availability with Grid Infrastructure, RAC and Data Guard. US: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2011.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability: Maximize Your Availability with Grid Infrastructure, RAC and Data Guard

Authors: Scott Jesse, Bill Burton and Bryan Vongray

Published:  March 2011

eISBN: 9780071752077 0071752072 | ISBN: 9780071752084
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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Oracle’s Grid Infrastructure
  • 1 Architecting the Oracle Database Grid
  • LunarTrax: To the Moon and Beyond!
  • Planning the Grid
  • The Grid and Planned Maintenance
  • Recovering Quickly from Failures
  • Protecting Against and Recovering from User Errors
  • Planning for Expansion and Future Growth
  • Disaster Recovery
  • What Next?
  • Go Forth and Conquer
  • 2 Oracle VM
  • Virtualization Basics
  • Oracle VM
  • Using Oracle VM Manager
  • Using Oracle VM Server
  • Multiple VM Servers Using iSCSI for Shared Discs
  • Supported Oracle VM Configurations for Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
  • Using Prebuilt Oracle RAC Templates
  • Summary
  • 3 Grid Infrastructure
  • Cluster Ready Services
  • CRS Concepts
  • CRS Architecture
  • Clusterware Trace Files
  • Summary
  • 4 Grid Infrastructure Installation and Configuration
  • GI Installation Choices and Requirements
  • Cluster Verification Utility
  • Grid Infrastructure Install
  • Adding and Removing Nodes from a Cluster
  • Upgrading to GI
  • What’s New for 11.2.0.2
  • Summary
  • 5 Oracle Automatic Storage Management
  • ASM Concepts
  • ASM Cluster File System
  • Summary
  • Part II: Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)
  • 6 Oracle RAC Setup/Configuration
  • Oracle RAC/RDBMS Install Options
  • File System Choice for DB Files
  • cluvfy
  • Installing Oracle RAC
  • Workload Management Considerations
  • Enabling Archiving
  • Extending Oracle RAC Databases to New Nodes
  • Deleting an Instance from the Oracle RAC Database
  • Installing Earlier RDBMS Releases
  • Oracle RAC on Extended Distance Clusters
  • Summary
  • 7 Oracle RAC Administration
  • Oracle RAC vs. Single-Instance: Additional Processes
  • Oracle RAC vs. Single-Instance: The Basics
  • Redo and Rollback with Oracle RAC
  • Parallelism in an Oracle RAC Environment
  • Monitoring the Environment
  • Tuning with AWR and ADDM
  • Archiving and Backing Up
  • Patches and Patchsets
  • Managing the Oracle RAC Database with SRVCTL
  • Management Through Policies
  • Managing Diagnostic Data
  • Summary
  • 8 Utility Computing: Applications as Services
  • Services Concepts
  • Distributing Work Among Oracle RAC Nodes for Performance
  • Event Notification
  • Creating Services and Callouts
  • Using SRVCTL to Manage Services and Node Applications
  • Cluster Listener Configuration
  • Transparent Application Failover
  • Summary
  • Part III: Disaster Planning
  • 9 Oracle Data Guard
  • Making the Right Choice
  • Creating a Physical Standby
  • Creating a Snapshot Standby
  • Creating a Logical Standby
  • Log Transport Services
  • Log Transport Services Security
  • Standby Redo Logs
  • Protection Modes
  • Handling Network Disconnects
  • Gap Detection and Resolution
  • Managing a Physical Standby Database
  • Managing a Logical Standby Database
  • Performing a Role Transition Using Switchover
  • Performing a Role Transition Using Failover
  • Summary
  • 10 Backup and Recovery for MAA Environments
  • The Importance of Media Backups
  • RMAN: A Primer
  • Preparing an RMAN Backup Strategy
  • Backups for the MAA Database
  • Performing Recovery
  • Media Management Considerations
  • RMAN and Oracle Data Guard
  • RMAN and Oracle RAC
  • Summary
  • 11 Flashback Recovery
  • Being Prepared for the Inevitable: Flashback Technology
  • Laying the Groundwork
  • Flashback Query and Flashback Table
  • Flashback Drop
  • Flashback Transaction
  • Flashback Database
  • Summary
  • Part IV: Enhancing Availability with Additional Features
  • 12 Oracle Data Guard Broker
  • Oracle Data Guard Broker Architecture Overview
  • Oracle Data Guard Broker Configuration
  • Monitoring an Oracle Data Guard Broker Configuration
  • Modifying a Broker-Managed Oracle Data Guard Configuration
  • Role Transitions with Oracle Data Guard Broker
  • Increasing Database Availability with Fast-Start Failover
  • Enhancing Application Availability with Fast Application Notification and Role-Based Services
  • Summary
  • 13 Oracle Grid Control
  • What Is Oracle Grid Control?
  • Grid Control Architecture
  • Preparing to Install Oracle Grid Control 11g Release 1
  • Oracle Management Agents
  • Administration of Grid Control
  • Monitoring
  • Notifications
  • MAA Environment Administration Using Grid Control
  • Summary
  • Index