There are countless articles, books and presentations that explain the advantages of using Oracle s Real Application Cluster technology, yet most DBA s are just too busy to build a clustered server environment to learn about this cutting edge technology.Most Oracle students either don t have access to the necessary documentation, or they get confused by shear complexity of this powerful Grid technology. Furthermore, finding the right hardware to build a personal RAC for a reasonable price is a huge challenge. This step-by-step guide will teach you to build and configure a Real Application Cluster cheap, quick and easy so that you can get the experience you need in order to compete in today s Oracle job marketplace.

A guide for Oracle DBAs who are too busy to build a clustered server environment to learn about Oracle's Real Application Cluster technology, this book allows DBAs to build and configure a Real Application Cluster quickly and inexpensively. Covers how to find the right hardware to build an at-home RAC, where to get Linux and how to set it up, how to install the Oracle Cluster Manager, and how to create the RAC database.

Revealing the secrets for quickly implementing and tuning Oracle RAC database systems, this book covers all areas of Oracle Real Application Clusters including Oracle10g new features. Oracle DBAs who are charged with configuring and implementing a RAC clusters database will benefit from this complete guide to the installation as well as configuration and design of Oracle Real Application Clusters. Information is supplied on expert internals of shared disk technology, raw devices and RAID with RAC, the internal concurrency, resource coordination, and the locking mechanism within RAC. Also explained are Transparent Application Failover (TAF) and monitoring and tuning Oracle10g RAC applications.

This text presents a complete guide to the installation, configuration and design of Oracle Grid and RAC. It supplies expert internals of shared disk technology, raw devices and RAID, and exposes the internal configuration methods for server blades. The text also demonstrates the use of Oracle Grid using the Enterprise Manager Grid control utility.

Grid architecture is Oracle's strategy for high-end computing and RAC is the stepping stone into this arena. This book focuses on current technology including all valid RAC features up through Oracle Database 10g Release 2, with a primary focus on deploying it in a high-end grid environment. The book discusses this technology at length which users will find beneficial when researching, implementing or monitoring a RAC environment. The author covers workshop implementation of services and the distribution of workload across instances, with threshold definitions and the new load balancing algorithms. In addition it includes detailed discussions on ASM that complements the implementation of RAC in Oracle Grid strategy. The book also includes discussions on new Oracle Clusterware, its components and its integration with RAC. Oracle 10g RAC focuses on RAC-specific topics including ASM, operating system configuration, installation and configuration of RAC and much more. Coverage includes network configuration for high availability, FAN, TAF, ONS, implementation of maximum availability architecture (MAA), EM Grid Control, AWR, ADDM and other performance-related tools. The author includes several scripts for performance tuning and implementation that the reader can use to configure a RAC environment either on a 2, 4, 8, 60 or 99 node configuration. - Focuses on implementing, testing and tuning features of Real Application Clusters (RAC) database version 10g Release 2 - Provides extensive coverage of usage, day-to-day functions and operations - Includes tips and techniques such as script samples to illustrate various features of RAC - A jumpstart into all the key features of 10g R2 RAC