Oracle Database 11g R2 Grid Infrastructure and ASM

This Oracle 11g training course provides a step-by-step guide for configuring and using the Oracle Grid Infrastructure in a single server environment, and it forms the basis for expanding this infrastructure to a clustered server configuration. Advanced database and storage administration tasks are considered, including Oracle Restart and Automatic Storage Management (ASM). With this course you will learn about:

- Preparing a host system for the Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RDBMS installations and performing those installations;

- Preparing a host system for ASM storage management;

- Partitioning and configuration of storage devices for ASM storage on both Linux and MS Windows servers;

- Utilizing Oracle Restart for automatic sequencing and restarting of Oracle software components;

- Obtain an introduction to Oracle High-Availability Services including the Server Control and Clusterware Control utilities;

- Review the Oracle server stack architecture including operating system virtualization and storage subsystem virtualization layers;

- Using ASM for storage of some or all database files, thereby providing a database-centric and optimized storage and volume manager;

- Exploiting ASM storage from the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA), Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA) and the Enterprise Manager (EM) interface;

- Administration of an ASM instance and management of ASM disk groups;

- Implement advanced storage capabilities including Intelligent Data Placement, Highcapacity disk drives and access control privileges;

- Manage storage systems using the ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) and the ASM command-line interface (ASMCMD);

- Migrate a database from traditional file system storage to ASM storage;

- Monitoring performance and throughput of ASM devices.