Overview

This book explains how to architect and deploy high availability (HA) solutions with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) in a Sun™ Cluster 3.x environment. It presents information to help you decide when an Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster software solution is appropriate to satisfy the availability requirements of your business. In addition, this book explains the technology behind these products, describes successful customer deployments, and provides technical tips and preferred practice recommendations.   This book features detailed case studies, including  A large German bank that has implemented an Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster software solution to meet the ever-increasing business demands of the banking industry. One of the largest companies in Europe for alpine skiing that has implemented Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster software to support HA requirements in a consolidated environment. A benchmark case that describes the use of Oracle RAC with Sun’s Remote Shared Memory (RSM) technology to improve the performance of single-instance databases. A large financial institution that uses Sun Cluster’s HA Oracle agent to provide the necessary level of HA required for their database.

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Author:   Kristien Hens ,  Michael Loebmann
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Prentice Hall
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780131863903

ISBN 10:   0131863908
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 April 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments iii Preface xiii   Chapter 1: Understanding High Availability for Databases 1 Assessing the Criticality of a Solution 2 Assessing High Availability Requirements for Databases 6 Choosing the Correct Configuration to Support HA Requirements 11 Protecting Data–Beyond Application Availability 15 Preparing for Disasters–Business Continuity Management 20   Chapter 2: Understanding the Benefits of Implementing Oracle RAC on Sun Cluster Software 23 Using Oracle on the Solaris Operating System 24 Understanding the Value of Oracle and Sun Mature Technologies 28 Understanding the Robustness of Sun Cluster Software 28 Understanding Options for Accessing Memory Remotely 33 Understanding Options for Storing Data 35 Supporting Enterprise Continuity Solutions 37 Looking at the Future of Oracle and Sun Cluster 42   Chapter 3: Understanding the Oracle RAC Architecture and Sun Cluster Software Internals 43 Designing a Hardware Architecture to Support High Availability 44 Using an Operating System That Supports High Availability 51 Examining Sun Cluster Software Internals 54 Understanding the Interaction of Sun Cluster Packages for OPS/RAC 70 Examining Oracle RAC Functionality 78   Chapter 4: Applying Preferred Practices to Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster Implementations 91 Installing Oracle RAC in a Sun Cluster 3.x Environment 91 Understanding Oracle Data Configuration 101 Configuring Data for Oracle RAC 109 Configuring Archive Log Locations 116 Understanding Client Connections 125 Managing Client Connections in Oracle 9i RAC 129 Tuning Sun Cluster 3.x Software for Oracle RAC 133   Chapter 5: Examining High Availability Real-World Implementations 141 Analyzing Real-World Customer Solutions 142 Providing High Availability Services in the Banking Sector 144 Supporting the Seasonal HA Requirements of the Resort Industry 153 Improving Performance With Oracle RAC and Sun’s Remote Shared Memory 159 Addressing HA With an HA Oracle Agent in a Consolidated Environment 161   Appendix A: History of Oracle’s Parallel Database Technology 165 Sun Cluster 2.x and Oracle OPS 166 Cluster Architectures and Oracle Parallel Server Technology 175 Oracle’s Cache Coherency Protocol 178 The Famous Ping 178 Always in Turn Please–Enqueues 180 Oracle 9i: Cache Fusion II–All Fusion? 182   Appendix B: Sample Service Level Agreement 183 Service Levels 185   Appendix C: Examples of the scsetup Utility 187 Setting Up the Oracle RAC Framework Resource Group 187 Registering a VxVM Diskgroup in the Cluster With the scsetup Utility 190 Registering VxVM Volumes With the scsetup Utility 192

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Author Information

Kristien Hens is currently working as a Technology System Engineer, focusing on storage and cluster technologies. Before that she worked for four years for Sun Educational Services. She has taught storage and Sun Cluster courses to customers and Sun engineers. She has also developed and taught the courses “Oracle 9i for Sun Engineers” and “Oracle 9i RAC on Sun Cluster 3.x Workshop.” She is coauthor of three Sun BluePrints OnLine articles.   Michael Loebmann has been the local senior systems engineer for the ISV Oracle in Germany for three years. His tasks include both the exchange of technical knowledge between Oracle and Sun and customer consultation with regard to competition. He has been working in the computer field since 1990, and for Oracle since 1993. He has more than nine years of experience with Oracle products, especially in Oracle data warehousing and parallel Oracle databases (OPS and RAC). His specialties include Oracle performance tuning on Solaris and the investigation of database performance on storage subsystems.

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