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 CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
Contents at a Glance
 About the Author..................................................................................................xxi
 About the Technical Reviewer............................................................................xxii
 Acknowledgments.............................................................................................xxiii
 Chapter 1: Introduction...........................................................................................1
 Chapter 2: RAC Concepts......................................................................................27
 Chapter 3: RAC Architecture.................................................................................63
 Chapter 4: Hardware.............................................................................................97
 Chapter 5: Virtualization.....................................................................................165
 Chapter 6: Linux Installation and Configuration.................................................231
 Chapter 7: Grid Infrastructure Installation.........................................................323
 Chapter 8: Clusterware.......................................................................................379
 Chapter 9: Automatic Storage Management.......................................................455
 Chapter 10: RDBMS Installation and Configuration............................................505
 Chapter 11: Workload Management...................................................................559
 Chapter 12: Oracle Performance Monitoring......................................................607
 Chapter 13: Linux Performance Monitoring........................................................653
 Chapter 14: Parallel Execution ...........................................................................687
 Chapter 15: Upgrading to Oracle 11g Release 2.................................................717
 Index...................................................................................................................771
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 CONTENTS
Contents
 About the Authors................................................................................................xxi
 About the Technical Reviewers..........................................................................xxii
 Acknowledgments.............................................................................................xxiii
 Chapter 1: Introduction...........................................................................................1
Introducing Oracle Real Application Clusters....................................................................1
Examining the RAC Architecture........................................................................................3
Deploying RAC...................................................................................................................4
Maintaining High Availability....................................................................................................................5
Defining Scalability...................................................................................................................................6
Scaling Vertically vs. Horizontally.............................................................................................................7
Increasing Manageability.........................................................................................................................8
Assessing the Cost of Ownership...........................................................................................................10
Clustering with Oracle on Linux.......................................................................................13
Running Linux on Oracle..................................................................................................16
Understanding the Role of Unix..............................................................................................................16
Liberating Software................................................................................................................................17
Developing Linux....................................................................................................................................18
Expanding the Concept of Free with Open Source.................................................................................19
Combining Oracle, Open Source, and Linux....................................................................20
Drilling Down on Unbreakable Linux......................................................................................................21
Creating and Growing Red Hat Enterprise Linux....................................................................................22
Extending Red Hat with Oracle Enterprise Linux....................................................................................23
Drilling Down on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.....................................................................................24
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Taking Linux to Asia...............................................................................................................................25
Summary.........................................................................................................................25
 Chapter 2: RAC Concepts......................................................................................27
Clustering Concepts.........................................................................................................27
Configuring Active/active Clusters.........................................................................................................27
Implementing Active/passive Clusters...................................................................................................28
Configuring a Shared-All Architecture....................................................................................................28
Configuring a Shared-Nothing Architecture...........................................................................................29
Exploring the Main RAC Concepts...................................................................................29
Working with Cluster Nodes...................................................................................................................29
Leveraging the Interconnect...................................................................................................................30
Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure..............................................................................................................31
Leveraging Automatic Storage Management.........................................................................................39
Installing Real Application Clusters........................................................................................................44
Using the Global Resource Directory (GRD)............................................................................................49
Transferring Data Between Instances with Cache Fusion......................................................................51
Achieving Read Consistency...................................................................................................................52
Synchronizing System Change Numbers...............................................................................................52
Exploring the New Features of 11g Release 2.................................................................52
Leveraging Grid Plug and Play................................................................................................................53
Modeling Resources with Server Pools..................................................................................................55
Ensuring POSIX Compliance with ACFS..................................................................................................56
Using Oracle Restart Instead of RAC......................................................................................................57
Simplifying Clusterd Database Access with SCAN Listener...................................................................59
Summary.........................................................................................................................60
 Chapter 3: RAC Architecture.................................................................................63
Availability Considerations...............................................................................................63
Deciding the Number of Nodes...............................................................................................................65
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Online Maintenance and Patching..........................................................................................................67
Instance Recovery in RAC.......................................................................................................................72
Failover Considerations...................................................................................................74
Transparent Application Failover............................................................................................................75
Fast Connection Failover and Fast Application Notification...................................................................76
Scalability Considerations...............................................................................................77
Scalability Enhancers.............................................................................................................................78
Scalability Inhibitors...............................................................................................................................79
Standby Databases..........................................................................................................81
Introduction to Oracle Standby Databases.............................................................................................82
Types of Standby Database....................................................................................................................83
Active Data Guard...................................................................................................................................85
Extended Distance Clusters....................................................................................................................90
Oracle Streams................................................................................................................91
Streams Processing................................................................................................................................92
Oracle Streams Prerequisites.................................................................................................................93
Cluster Topologies...........................................................................................................94
Summary.........................................................................................................................95
 Chapter 4: Hardware.............................................................................................97
Oracle Availability............................................................................................................98
Server Processor Architecture.........................................................................................99
x86 Processor Fundamentals.................................................................................................................99
Multicore Processors and Hyper-Threading.........................................................................................103
CPU Cache............................................................................................................................................106
CPU Power Management......................................................................................................................109
Virtualization.........................................................................................................................................111
Memory..........................................................................................................................112
Virtual Memory.....................................................................................................................................112
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Physical Memory..................................................................................................................................113
NUMA....................................................................................................................................................116
Memory Reliability................................................................................................................................125
Additional Platform Features.........................................................................................125
Onboard RAID Storage..........................................................................................................................126
Machine Check Architectures...............................................................................................................126
Remote Server Management and IPMI.................................................................................................127
Network Interconnect Technologies..............................................................................127
Server I/O..............................................................................................................................................128
Private Interconnect.............................................................................................................................131
Storage Technologies....................................................................................................136
RAC I/O Characteristics........................................................................................................................137
Hard Disk and Solid State Disk Drive Performance..............................................................................143
RAID......................................................................................................................................................147
Storage Protocols for Linux..................................................................................................................153
Summary.......................................................................................................................164
 Chapter 5: Virtualization.....................................................................................165
Virtualization Definition and Benefits.............................................................................165
Oracle VM......................................................................................................................168
Oracle VM Server Architecture.............................................................................................................168
Oracle VM Design.................................................................................................................................174
Oracle VM Server Installation........................................................................................178
Oracle VM Manager Installation.....................................................................................183
Oracle VM CLI Installation and Configuration................................................................186
Configuring Oracle VM...................................................................................................187
Network Configuration..........................................................................................................................187
Server Pool Configuration.....................................................................................................................192
Installing and Configuring Guests..................................................................................208
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Importing a Template...........................................................................................................................209
Creating a Guest from a Template........................................................................................................210
Accessing a Guest................................................................................................................................212
Configuring a Guest for RAC.................................................................................................................214
Managing Domains........................................................................................................216
Oracle VM Agent...................................................................................................................................216
Oracle VM Manager..............................................................................................................................218
Oracle VM Manager CLI........................................................................................................................220
The xm Command-Line Interface.........................................................................................................222
Summary.......................................................................................................................230
 Chapter 6: Linux Installation and Configuration.................................................231
Selecting the Right Linux Software...............................................................................231
Reviewing the Hardware Requirements........................................................................232
Drilling Down on Networking Requirements..................................................................233
Configuring a GNS or a Manual IP........................................................................................................233
Configuring DNS and DHCP..................................................................................................................236
Downloading the Linux Software...................................................................................243
Preparing for a Network Install......................................................................................243
Installing Oracle Enterprise Linux 5...............................................................................247
Starting the Installation........................................................................................................................247
Installation Media Check......................................................................................................................247
Anaconda Installation...........................................................................................................................247
Install or Upgrade.................................................................................................................................248
Disk Partitioning...................................................................................................................................248
Configuring the Boot Loader and Network...........................................................................................259
Selecting a Time Zone..........................................................................................................................260
Configuring the Root Password............................................................................................................261
Reviewing the Package Installation Defaults.......................................................................................261
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