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Maintain a dynamic enterprise computing infrastructure with expert instruction from an Oracle ACE. Oracle Database 11g Oracle Real Application Clusters Handbook, Second Edition has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest tools and features. Find out how to prepare your hardware, deploy Oracle Real Application Clusters, optimize data integrity, and integrate seamless failover protection. Troubleshooting, performance tuning, and application development are also discussed in this comprehensive Oracle Press guide.
Humberto_Sa
Posted Tue Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2011
I'm a beginner in RAC although I have the OCA and OCP certifications. So i was looking for an easy book to guide me through RAC technology.
To start off, the most difficult part in using RAC is when you want to install the clusterware because there are a lot of requirements to be set up before you can actually install the clusterware. This book DOES NOT TEACH YOU how to configure network cards, set up private ip numbers or create a vip address. It does not even tell you how to create users and groups. The author used Linux as his chosen platform to run Oracle. So you better be very, very familiar with Linux specially in networking, using ssh to run commands in other computers, switching privileges/users using su/sudo. The author assumes you are an expert in linux but he does not mention that on the book. He simply skips these steps on the book.
Secondly, this book is just a bunch of fancy technical concepts. Real hands-on examples with step by step can be everything but detailed steps. The problem with this author is that he might think we're on the same level of knowledge he is and therefore, many things are simply ASSUMED that you and I know.
Thirdly, this books DOES NOT tell you anything about the GRID technology and architecture. There's no mention about grid management, including Enterprise Manager or Grid Control.
After all, I can tell you this: if you buy this book, you better have the Oracle 10g Online documentation ready and also a very, very good book about Linux just to start off.
In the end, you're better off without this book. Oracle 11g online documentation has a step by step on how to install and configure RAC on linux.
But there's hope: luckly, i found this book 'ORACLE 10G RAC GRID, SERVICES AND CLUSTERING' by Murali Vallath. This book guides you through the step by step of doing everything including how to set up and configure network cards, private ip, vip addresses, creating users and groups, modifying folders properties on linux, using ssh to execute commands in other machines, switching users and privileges with su/sudo. With this book, you don't need Oracle online documentation or a linux book. It also provides step by step on how to do the same things on windows.
It has a vast chapter about ASM with ton's of scripts to convert your database to ASM. So if you are a beginner or intermediate on RAC technology, you definitely should read this book. I'm not sure if the author has the same book for Oracle 11g. But i can tell you this: if you read this book for 10g, you're more than a half way through for 11g. The only thing you'll have to do is to catch up with the new stuff on 11g.
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Maintain a dynamic enterprise computing infrastructure with expert instruction from an Oracle ACE. Oracle Database 11g Oracle Real Application Clusters Handbook, Second Edition has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest tools and features. Find out how to prepare your hardware, deploy Oracle Real Application Clusters, optimize data integrity, and integrate ...