Oracle Database 12c R2: Clusterware Administration

Suggested Prerequisite

• Working knowledge of Oracle Database 11g: Release 2 on Linux Operating System
• Oracle Database 12c R2: Install and Upgrade Workshop
• Working knowledge of Oracle Clusterware, ASM & RAC on Linux
• Oracle Database 12c R2: Managing Multitenant Architecture
• Oracle Database 12c R2: Administration Workshop

Required Prerequisite

• Oracle Database 12c R2: Administration Workshop Ed 3
• Oracle Database 12c R2: Install and Upgrade Workshop

Oracle Database 12c R2: Managing Multitenant Architecture

Audience

• Database Administrators
• Administrator

Course Topics

1. Introduction to Clusterware

• Oracle Clusterware Architecture and Cluster Services Overview
• Oracle Clusterware Characteristics
• Grid Naming Service (GNS), Shared GNS, and Highly Available GNS
• GNS Configuration Options
• Single Client Access Name (SCAN)
• Oracle Clusterware Requirements: OS, Public/Private Networks, and IP addresses
• Cluster in general

2. Grid Infrastructure Installation

• Verifying the Oracle Clusterware Installation
• Configuring Shared GNS
• Performing an image-based Grid Infrastructure Installation
• Grid Plug and Play Support for Flex Cluster Configuration
• Choosing a Cluster Configuration Option

3. Policy-Based Cluster and Capacity Management

• Server Categorization
• Policy Set
• Policy-Based Cluster Management Overview
• Load-Aware Resource Placement
• Server Weight-Based Node Eviction

4. Making Applications Highly Available

• Clusterware Resource Group
• Creating an Application VIP
• Oracle Clusterware HA Components
• Resource Management Options
• Server Pools
• Overview of Using Oracle Clusterware to Enable HA
• Clusterware Resource Modeling
• Overall flow diagram of HA lifecycle

5. Cluster Configuration Options

• Oracle Member Cluster for Applications
• Oracle Domain Services Cluster
• Oracle Member Cluster for Oracle Databases
• Oracle Extended Clusters
• Oracle Standalone Clusters

6. Managing Cluster Nodes

• Configuring the node role
• Removing a Node from the Cluster
• Adding Oracle Clusterware Homes
• Prerequisites for running addnode.sh
• Adding a Node with addNode.sh

7. Patching Grid Infrastructure

• Installing a Rolling Patch with OPatch
• Out-of-Place Oracle Clusterware Upgrade
• Types of Patches
• OPatch Overview
• Rolling Patches
• Installing a Rolling Patchset with OUI
• Obtaining Oracle Clusterware Patches
• OPatch Automation

8. Grid Infrastructure Pre-Installation Tasks

• Shared Storage for Oracle Clusterware
• Single Client Access Name for the Cluster
• Redundant Interconnect Usage
• Kernel Requirements
• Checking System Requirements
• Grid Infrastructure Management Repository Details
• Sizing Storage for Oracle Standalone Cluster
• Groups and Users

9. Traditional Clusterware Management

• Oracle Clusterware startup and shutdown
• Administering the Voting Disk file
• Network Administration
• Reasoned What-If Command Evaluation
• Clusterware Admin Tools Review
• Administering the Oracle Cluster Registry Disk file

10. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

• Using Oracle Autonomous Health Framework Overview
• Using the Cluster Resource Activity Log (CALOG)
• Using Oracle Clusterware Diagnostic and Alert Log Data
• Cluster Verify Utility (CVU)
• Node Eviction
• Cluster Health Monitor (CHM)
• Trace File Analyzer (TFA) Collector
• Cluster Health Advisor (CHA)