Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux, 2/e (Paperback)

Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux provides full-life-cycle guidance on implementing Oracle Real Application Clusters in a Linux environment. Real Application Clusters, commonly abbreviated as RAC, is Oracle’s industry-leading architecture for scalable and fault-tolerant databases. RAC allows you to scale up and down by simply adding and subtracting inexpensive Linux servers. Redundancy provided by those multiple, inexpensive servers is the basis for the failover and other fault-tolerance features that RAC provides.

Written by authors well-known for their talent with RAC, Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux gives you a rock-solid and technically flawless foundation on which to build your RAC-management skills. Authors Julian Dyke and Steve Shaw share their hard-won experience in building RAC clusters, showing you how to build for success using the very latest Oracle technologies, such as Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Oracle Clusterware. You’ll learn to troubleshoot performance and other problems. You’ll even learn how to correctly deploy RAC in a virtual-machine environment based upon Oracle VM, which is the only virtualization solution supported by Oracle Corporation.

RAC is a complex and powerful technology. It demands expertise in its deployment. You can’t just “wing it” in creating a RAC solution. Julian and Steve have earned the right to term themselves expert—in Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux, they offer a rigorous and technically-correct treatment of RAC that helps you build a solid foundation of expertise and achieve success.

What you’ll learn

• Plan the architecture for a successful RAC installation
• Implement failover and other fault-tolerant features
• Scale RAC clusters up and down as needed to achieve performance targets
• Consolidate RAC clusters using Oracle’s virtualization solution
• Manage RAC proactively so as to sleep well at night
• Troubleshoot and solve performance and availability problems

Who this book is for

Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux is written for Oracle Database Administrators who want to step up their skills to be equal to the task of managing Real Application Clusters.

Table of Contents

1.  Introduction  
2.  RAC Concepts   
3.  RAC Architecture   
4.  Hardware  
5.  Virtualization  
6.  Linux Installation and Configuration   
7.  Grid Infrastructure Installation   
8.  Clusterware   
9.  Automatic Storage Management  
10.  RDBMS Installation and Configuration   
11.  Workload Management   
12.  Oracle Performance Monitoring   
13.  Linux Performance Monitoring  
14.  Parallel Execution   
15.  Upgrading to Oracle 11g Release 2

《Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux》提供了在Linux環境中實施Oracle Real Application Clusters的全生命周期指南。Real Application Clusters，通常簡稱為RAC，是Oracle領先業界的可擴展和容錯的數據庫架構。RAC允許您通過添加和刪除廉價的Linux服務器來進行擴展和縮減。這些多個廉價服務器提供的冗余性是RAC提供故障轉移和其他容錯功能的基礎。

《Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux》由以其在RAC方面才華出眾而聞名的作者撰寫，為您提供了堅實且技術無懈可擊的基礎，以建立您的RAC管理技能。作者Julian Dyke和Steve Shaw分享了他們在構建RAC集群方面的寶貴經驗，向您展示如何使用最新的Oracle技術（如自動存儲管理（ASM）和Oracle Clusterware）為成功構建。您將學習如何解決性能和其他問題。您甚至還將學習如何在基於Oracle VM的虛擬機環境中正確部署RAC，這是唯一受Oracle Corporation支持的虛擬化解決方案。

RAC是一項複雜且強大的技術。它需要在部署方面具有專業知識。您不能只是隨意創建RAC解決方案。Julian和Steve在《Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux》中贏得了稱自己為專家的權利，他們提供了一個嚴謹且技術正確的RAC處理，幫助您建立堅實的專業知識基礎並取得成功。

本書的特點包括：
- 嚴謹且技術正確的內容
- 從規劃到實施再到推出再到持續維護和故障排除的完整RAC覆蓋範圍
- 適應最新的RAC功能

您將學到：
- 規劃成功的RAC安裝架構
- 實施故障轉移和其他容錯功能
- 根據需要擴展和縮減RAC集群以達到性能目標
- 使用Oracle的虛擬化解決方案整合RAC集群
- 積極管理RAC以保證良好的睡眠
- 解決性能和可用性問題的故障排除方法

本書適合Oracle數據庫管理員，他們希望提升自己的技能，以應對管理Real Application Clusters的任務。

目錄：
1. 簡介
2. RAC概念
3. RAC架構
4. 硬件
5. 虛擬化
6. Linux安裝和配置
7. Grid Infrastructure安裝
8. 集群軟件
9. 自動存儲管理
10. RDBMS安裝和配置
11. 工作負載管理
12. Oracle性能監控
13. Linux性能監控
14. 平行執行
15. 升級到Oracle 11g Release 2