This book explains how to architect and deploy high availability (HA) solutions with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) in a Sun™ Cluster 3.x environment. It presents information to help you decide when an Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster software solution is appropriate to satisfy the availability requirements of your business. In addition, this book explains the technology behind these products, describes successful customer deployments, and provides technical tips and preferred practice recommendations.
This book features detailed case studies, including
After reading this book, you should be able to perform the following tasks:
To illustrate the benefits, costs, and requirements of various HA solutions, we provide the following detailed case studies:
This guide is organized in the following chapters:
Acknowledgments iii
Preface xiii
Chapter 1: Understanding High Availability for Databases 1
Assessing the Criticality of a Solution 2
Assessing High Availability Requirements for Databases 6
Choosing the Correct Configuration to Support HA Requirements 11
Protecting Data–Beyond Application Availability 15
Preparing for Disasters–Business Continuity Management 20
Chapter 2: Understanding the Benefits of Implementing Oracle RAC on Sun Cluster Software 23
Using Oracle on the Solaris Operating System 24
Understanding the Value of Oracle and Sun Mature Technologies 28
Understanding the Robustness of Sun Cluster Software 28
Understanding Options for Accessing Memory Remotely 33
Understanding Options for Storing Data 35
Supporting Enterprise Continuity Solutions 37
Looking at the Future of Oracle and Sun Cluster 42
Chapter 3: Understanding the Oracle RAC Architecture and Sun Cluster Software Internals 43
Designing a Hardware Architecture to Support High Availability 44
Using an Operating System That Supports High Availability 51
Examining Sun Cluster Software Internals 54
Understanding the Interaction of Sun Cluster Packages for OPS/RAC 70
Examining Oracle RAC Functionality 78
Chapter 4: Applying Preferred Practices to Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster Implementations 91
Installing Oracle RAC in a Sun Cluster 3.x Environment 91
Understanding Oracle Data Configuration 101
Configuring Data for Oracle RAC 109
Configuring Archive Log Locations 116
Understanding Client Connections 125
Managing Client Connections in Oracle 9i RAC 129
Tuning Sun Cluster 3.x Software for Oracle RAC 133
Chapter 5: Examining High Availability Real-World Implementations 141
Analyzing Real-World Customer Solutions 142
Providing High Availability Services in the Banking Sector 144
Supporting the Seasonal HA Requirements of the Resort Industry 153
Improving Performance With Oracle RAC and Sun’s Remote Shared Memory 159
Addressing HA With an HA Oracle Agent in a Consolidated Environment 161
Appendix A: History of Oracle’s Parallel Database Technology 165
Sun Cluster 2.x and Oracle OPS 166
Cluster Architectures and Oracle Parallel Server Technology 175
Oracle’s Cache Coherency Protocol 178
The Famous Ping 178
Always in Turn Please–Enqueues 180
Oracle 9i: Cache Fusion II–All Fusion? 182
Appendix B: Sample Service Level Agreement 183
Service Levels 185
Appendix C: Examples of the scsetup Utility 187
Setting Up the Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group 187
Registering a VxVM Diskgroup in the Cluster With the scsetup Utility 190
Registering VxVM Volumes With the scsetup Utility 192
The purpose of this Sun BluePrints book is to helps customers and Sun staff to architect and deploy high availability highly available (HA) solutions with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) in a Sun Cluster 3.x environment. It provides information to help you decide when an Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster software solution is appropriate to satisfy the availability requirements of your business. In addition, this book explains the technology behind these products and provides customer cases of successful deployments, technical tips, and preferred practice recommendations.
After reading this book, you should be able to perform the following tasks:
To illustrate the benefits, costs, and requirements of various HA solutions, we provide the following detailed case studies:
This guide is organized in the following chapters:
Overview
This book explains how to architect and deploy high availability (HA) solutions with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) in a Sun™ Cluster 3.x environment. It presents information to help you decide when an Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster software solution is appropriate to satisfy the availability requirements of your business. In addition, this book explains the technology behind these products, describes successful customer deployments, and provides technical tips and ...