If you are an Oracle DBA who wants to administer Real Application Clusters, then Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials is for you. Basic understanding of Oracle DBA is required. No experience of Oracle RAC is required. This book documents how to administer a complex Oracle 11g RAC environment. It covers new RAC components such as ASM's new features, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. It contains real world examples, expert tips, and troubleshooting advice. This book focuses on Oracle RAC 11g R1 with additional 11g R2 information included. This practical handbook documents how to administer a complex Oracle 11g RAC environment. Packed with real world examples, expert tips and troubleshooting advice, the book begins by introducing the concept of Oracle RAC and High Availability. It then dives deep into the world of RAC configuration, installation and design, enabling you to support complex RAC environments for real world deployments. Chapters cover Oracle RAC and High Availability, Oracle 11g RAC Architecture, Oracle 11g RAC Installation, Automatic Storage Management, Troubleshooting, Workload Management and much more.
By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn every concept of the RAC environment and how to successfully support complex Oracle 11g R1 and R2 RAC environments for various deployments within real world situations.
This book is the updated release of our previous Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Handbook. If you already own a copy of that Handbook, there is no need to upgrade to this book.
• Learn how to administer, implement, and manage Oracle 11g R1/R2 RAC environments for real world deployments quickly and easily.
• Learn from distinguished authors with practical, real-world examples, expert tips and troubleshooting advice on how to administer a complex Oracle 11g RAC environment
• Bonus Oracle 11g RAC R2 information included with this book and e-book
This book is the updated release of our previous Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Handbook. If you already own a copy of that Handbook, there is no need to upgrade to this book.
azar
Posted Sat Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2011
Before I start my review writing about this book, First I convey my big thank and congratz for Mr.Syed Jaffer Hussian , He is the co-author of this book. I am really proud of him as his student and friend. My best wishes for him successful life forever.
Now a days, "RAC" this is the word pronouncing continuously by among the DBA guys and Technical Experts.
Everybody thinking what is RAC? Is this word is very difficult for us? I mean Is this environment is difficult for working?.Yes may be But not at all If you know the RAC High Availability environment. I am sure You may love this environment If you have a knowledge about it .
As a Standalone database administrator, they may know about only about database concepts.but RAC environment DBA must want to knows about Database Administration, Network Structures, Storage, Virtual Environment etc. The RAC DBA must have a wide knowledge among this environmet.
Here this is the book explained about How do we deploy RAC installation and how do we choose our storage and how do we convert standalone to HA and more useful information available.
It has lot of screenshots helps for your understanding how do we deploy clusterware installation and two node RAC installation and also how do you choose your storage redundancy while you're installing.
many dba are thinking how do we manage ASM disks, i hope this book should be broken your thoughts. this book guide easily for you.
Additionally this book will guide you ,how can we take the RMAN backup for RAC environment.
and also you may think about Disaster Recovery i.e Dataguard delpoy enviornment ,here its there.
RAC installation techniques for EBS. This topic may be helps for apps dba guys.
and more steps available with helps of screens hots like clusterware upgrade, Convert standalone server to RAC server.
many many many questions if you have mind about RAC , I am sure this is the book will helpful for you and clear your doubts.
Oracle Real Application Clusters, or Oracle RAC for short (formerly known as Oracle Parallel Server), is a clustering technology that provides the ability to scale performance and improve server availability for Oracle data center environments. Oracle RAC not only serves as a part of the Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) for disaster recovery purposes, but it's also used for other purposes such as scaling up and out for performance by adding additional nodes to an Oracle data center environment.
HA means High availability is a discipline within database technology that provides a solution to protect against data loss and against downtime, which is costly to mission-critical database systems.
This book has including contains 12 chapters.
What do you learn from this book.
Learn how to administer, implement, and manage Oracle 11g RAC environments for real world deployments
Discover the key architectural design and installation techniques required to successfully deploy Oracle 11g RAC
Effectively manage the complex 11g Clusterware, using key troubleshooting tips and techniques
Successfully implement database creation methods, manage the Oracle RAC database and handle workload in your RAC environment efficiently
Appropriately plan your backup and recovery strategy
Know when and how to upgrade your Oracle RAC environment effectively
Discover how to deploy Oracle 11g RAC with complex standard-off-the-shelf systems like Oracle EBS
Understand new key features for Oracle 1
orawiss
Posted Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011
The authors, Ben Prusinski and Syed Jaffer Hussain , have successfully managed to write an excellent book about RAC 11gR1 and RAC 11gR2, something not really easy to accomplish, and they have clearly demonstrated the differences between both releases.
From the concept to the syntax, this book covers what is needed to successfully build a RAC environment. It focuses on concepts, installation, administration, backup and recovery, streams and data guard. If you want to build a highly available environment, this book is for you.
The two first chapters clearly focus on the high availability concepts and architecture of a RAC environment. Many DBAs jump directly to the syntax and forget about the concepts and the architecture. Those DBA will face serious problems with each new release of Oracle RAC. I highly recommend to read those 2 first chapters before jumping to the others. If you are a single instance DBA who never managed to install Oracle clusters, these two first chapters are also for you; read them and learn how to design the ley components like networks and storage.
Chapters 3 and 4 discuss Oracle Clusterware installation including grid infrastructure and ASM. They help you build the first components of your clusterware.
Chapter 5 is about managing and troubleshooting Oracle 11g . After installing the grid infrastructure you will be faced with many background processes. This chapter teaches you the commands to successfully administer your clusterware components as well as troubleshooting any cluster issue.
Chapter 6 is about installing the RAC database with many tips and best practices to follow.
Chapter 7 deals with back up and recovery of RAC databases. One of the most important task for a HA DBA. Tips and suggestions have been provided in this chapter.
After building the RAC environment, every DBA should care about the database performance; chapter 8 covers the most important components to focus on in your day to day monitoring.
Chapter 9 covers the upgrade of Oracle 10g R2 Clusterware to Oracle 11g R1 and how to Upgrade to Oracle 11g R2 Clusterware. This is a really important task for any HA DBA.
The chapter 10, in my opinion, one of the best chapters of this book, is about real-world examples; the authors shared their extensive experience of practical scenarios and examples.
The book ends with a great appendix containing a vast amount of Oracle RAC commands and tips.
In summary, the authors have produced a work of great quality and value. I recommend this book to all DBAs working on RAC systems for the following reasons:
* Clear explanation of RAC concepts and architecture.
* Clear step by step installation of clusterware and RAC databases.
* Real-world examples and tips.
* Troubleshooting guide for most common performance issues in RAC.
* Good summary of the most important RAC commands.
Overview
If you are an Oracle DBA who wants to administer Real Application Clusters, then Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials is for you. Basic understanding of Oracle DBA is required. No experience of Oracle RAC is required. This book documents how to administer a complex Oracle 11g RAC environment. It covers new RAC components such as ASM's new features, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. It contains real world examples, expert tips, and troubleshooting advice. This book focuses on Oracle RAC 11g...