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• Operating Systems : Linux
• Other Topics : Open Source

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Real Application Clusters (RAC) and the Grid architecture are Oracle's strategy for scaling out enterprise systems to cope with bigger workloads and more users. Many books limit themselves by conceptualizing and theorizing about RAC technology, but this book is the first to portray implementing and administering an Oracle 10g RAC system in a Linux environment. This book features basic concepts underlying Linux and Oracle RAC, design strategies, hardware procurement and configuration, and many other topics.

The RAC-specific technologies described include configuration of the interconnect, OCFS, ASM, Cluster Ready Services, and Grid Control. The Oracle features RMAN and Data Guard are also discussed, along with available hardware options. The authors include practical examples and configuration information, so that upon reading this book, you’ll be armed with the information you need to build an Oracle RAC database on Linux, whether it is on a single laptop or a 64-node Itanium cluster.

Table of Contents

About the Authors xxi
About the Technical Reviewers xxii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction xxv
Chapter 1 Introduction to RAC 1
Chapter 2 Introduction to Linux 21
Chapter 3 RAC Concepts 31
Chapter 4 RAC Design 59
Chapter 5 Benchmarking Concepts 83
Chapter 6 Hardware 99
Chapter 7 Storage 125
Chapter 8 Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS) 171
Chapter 9 Automatic Storage Management (ASM) 201
Chapter 10 Installing Linux 235
Chapter 11 Configuring and Verifying Linux 259
Chapter 12 Installing and Configuring Oracle Software 301
Chapter 13 Creating and Configuring Databases 327
Chapter 14 Installing and Configuring Enterprise Manager 363
Chapter 15 Linux Administration 385
Chapter 16 Oracle Clusterware 401
Chapter 17 Application Development 425
Chapter 18 Using Administrative Tools 465
Chapter 19 Workload Management 493
Chapter 20 Adding and Deleting Nodes and Instances 521
Chapter 21 Trace and Diagnostics 553
Chapter 22 RAC Internals 575
Chapter 23 Benchmarking Tools: Hammerora and Swingbench 607
Chapter 24 Performance Monitoring . 649
Chapter 25 Backup and Recovery 683
Chapter 26 Disaster Recovery 717
Appendix Third-Party Clustering Solutions 743
Index 753

About the Authors

Julian Dyke is a senior database consultant with Intel Solution Services, specializing in implementation and performance tuning of Oracle Real Application Clusters. He has over 20 years of database experience as a kernel developer, production DBA, and consultant. He presents regularly at conferences, seminars, and user group events in the UK, Europe, and America. He also contributes articles and papers to various trade publications. Julian is a member of the Oak Table Network and is chair of the UK Oracle User Group RAC SIG. He maintains juliandyke.com, which provides information on Oracle diagnostics, trace, and execution plans.

Steve Shaw is a senior database consultant for Intel Solution Services, specializing in Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux. Steve has over 10 years of commercial IT experience, including a period of time with Oracle Corporation. Steve is the author of Hammerora, the leading open source Oracle load-test tool. Steve has contributed articles to many Oracle publications and websites, and presents regularly at Oracle seminars, conferences, and special interest groups. He has also been the lead technical reviewer for a number of Oracle books.

Sep 28, 2006     Lon (AZOAUG - Member) from Arizona
This book was more than I had hoped for!
This book is more than I had hoped for. I was eagerly awaiting the release of the book as I work in a RAC environment. If you also work with RAC you know there are many complexities that differentiate a RAC multi instance single database from the more common single instance and database. These complexities are documented but usually not very easy to follow. There have been several books on RAC published recently but this was the first by an OakTable Network member. This made the book even more appealing since a guiding foundation of the OakTable is to prove your assertion through documented steps that can be reproduced (essentially, more science and less art).

After having the book now for 4 weeks I can say that it was well worth the wait. Julian Dyke and Steve Shaw have produced an excellent guide explaining RAC concepts as well as OS and disk array interactions. Its value was proved almost immediately when another DBA on our team was looking for information on "stretch clusters" and no one knew what he was referring to. We looked in the book and saw an explanation. The section covering RAC internals was especially helpful in illustrating the difference in how the buffer cache works in a RAC instance versus a non-RAC instance. We also got a lot of help from the explanation on the LKDEBUG utility.

This book has become our desk reference for all things RAC. The book is easy to read and has an easy way of illustrating the point being made. As an additional benefit, owners of this book can purchase the eBook companion from Apress for $10.00 which allows you to have a fully searchable PDF on your computer. This accentuates the book's value since you can go directly to whatever keyword based topic you're needing help with. If you are running RAC or want to learn about the RAC technology you should have this book; it is that good!

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