Oracle RAC, ASM and Data Guard Administration

This is a build-and-break course. Delegates install Grid Infrastructure on a multi-node cluster, create ASM disk groups, deploy a RAC database, configure a standby, and then spend a substantial part of the course deliberately failing components to observe what happens and practise recovery.

Cache fusion and the interconnect receive early and detailed attention. Most RAC performance problems trace back to global cache waits, and an administrator who cannot read those waits will misdiagnose a cluster as a storage or application problem.

Troubleshooting Clusterware is treated as a core skill rather than an appendix. Node evictions, split brain, voting disk loss and OCR corruption are covered as scenarios delegates work through, because these are the incidents that define whether a DBA is trusted with a production cluster.

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₹15,000

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Module 1 — Clusterware architecture (empty)

12Lessons · 1 hr 37 min
- 1.1 Video: What Real Application Clusters is and why it is used
- 1.1 What Real Application Clusters is and why it is used
- 1.2 Video: The Oracle Clusterware stack
- 1.2 The Oracle Clusterware stack
- 1.3 Video: Shared storage: OCR and voting disks
- 1.3 Shared storage: OCR and voting disks
- 1.4 Video: Node membership, heartbeats and eviction
- 1.4 Node membership, heartbeats and eviction
- 1.5 Video: Cluster types, hub and leaf nodes, and secure communication
- 1.5 Cluster types, hub and leaf nodes, and secure communication
- 1.L Lab: Touring a two-node RAC cluster
  
  Lab
- Module 1 Quiz: Clusterware Architecture
  
  10 xp
Module 2 — Grid Infrastructure installation (empty)

12Lessons · 1 hr 36 min
- 2.1 Video: Planning a cluster
- 2.1 Planning a cluster
- 2.2 Video: Networks: public, private interconnect, VIPs and SCAN
- 2.2 Networks: public, private interconnect, VIPs and SCAN
- 2.3 Video: ASM disk groups for cluster files and data
- 2.3 ASM disk groups for cluster files and data
- 2.4 Video: Installing Grid Infrastructure 19c
- 2.4 Installing Grid Infrastructure 19c
- 2.5 Video: Checking readiness with the Cluster Verification Utility
- 2.5 Checking readiness with the Cluster Verification Utility
- 2.L Lab: Verifying nodes and installing Grid Infrastructure
  
  Lab
- Module 2 Quiz: Grid Infrastructure Installation
  
  10 xp
Module 3 — Managing Clusterware (empty)

14Lessons · 1 hr 53 min
- 3.1 Video: crsctl and srvctl
- 3.1 crsctl and srvctl
- 3.2 Video: Resources, dependencies and startup
- 3.2 Resources, dependencies and startup
- 3.3 Video: Adding and removing nodes
- 3.3 Adding and removing nodes
- 3.4 Video: Server pools, categories and policy-based management
- 3.4 Server pools, categories and policy-based management
- 3.5 Video: Making applications highly available with Clusterware
- 3.5 Making applications highly available with Clusterware
- 3.6 Video: Upgrading Grid Infrastructure and RAC to 19c
- 3.6 Upgrading Grid Infrastructure and RAC to 19c
- 3.L Lab: Clusterware administration: resources, OCR and voting files
  
  Lab
- Module 3 Quiz: Managing Clusterware
  
  10 xp
Module 4 — ASM administration (empty)

12Lessons · 1 hr 36 min
- 4.1 Video: ASM instances and Flex ASM
- 4.1 ASM instances and Flex ASM
- 4.2 Video: Disk groups, redundancy and failure groups
- 4.2 Disk groups, redundancy and failure groups
- 4.3 Video: Rebalancing and replacing disks
- 4.3 Rebalancing and replacing disks
- 4.4 Video: ACFS and ADVM
- 4.4 ACFS and ADVM
- 4.5 Video: Monitoring ASM
- 4.5 Monitoring ASM
- 4.L Lab: ASM in the cluster: space, a failed disk and ACFS
  
  Lab
- Module 4 Quiz: ASM Administration
  
  10 xp
Module 5 — RAC architecture (empty)

10Lessons · 1 hr 19 min
- 5.1 Video: Instances, redo threads and undo
- 5.1 Instances, redo threads and undo
- 5.2 Video: Cache Fusion and global resources
- 5.2 Cache Fusion and global resources
- 5.3 Video: The Global Resource Directory and lock mastering
- 5.3 The Global Resource Directory and lock mastering
- 5.4 Video: The interconnect
- 5.4 The interconnect
- 5.L Lab: Finding and fixing a RAC hot block
  
  Lab
- Module 5 Quiz: RAC Architecture
  
  10 xp
Module 6 — Installing and administering RAC (empty)

14Lessons · 1 hr 54 min
- 6.1 Video: Installing the database software and creating the RAC database
- 6.1 Installing the database software and creating the RAC database
- 6.2 Video: Administrator-managed and policy-managed databases
- 6.2 Administrator-managed and policy-managed databases
- 6.3 Video: Initialization parameters in RAC
- 6.3 Initialization parameters in RAC
- 6.4 Video: Redo, archiving and the recovery area in RAC
- 6.4 Redo, archiving and the recovery area in RAC
- 6.5 Video: Starting and stopping with srvctl
- 6.5 Starting and stopping with srvctl
- 6.6 Video: Multitenant RAC and PDB placement
- 6.6 Multitenant RAC and PDB placement
- 6.L Lab: Managing a RAC database with srvctl
  
  Lab
- Module 6 Quiz: Installing and Administering RAC
  
  10 xp
Module 7 — Services and workload management (empty)

12Lessons · 1 hr 37 min
- 7.1 Video: Services in a RAC database
- 7.1 Services in a RAC database
- 7.2 Video: SCAN listeners and connection load balancing
- 7.2 SCAN listeners and connection load balancing
- 7.3 Video: Fast Application Notification
- 7.3 Fast Application Notification
- 7.4 Video: Application Continuity and Transparent Application Failover
- 7.4 Application Continuity and Transparent Application Failover
- 7.5 Video: Workload management with services and Resource Manager
- 7.5 Workload management with services and Resource Manager
- 7.L Lab: Services, SCAN and failover in practice
  
  Lab
- Module 7 Quiz: Services and Workload Management
  
  10 xp
Module 8 — Backup, recovery and tuning (empty)

14Lessons · 1 hr 54 min
- 8.1 Video: RMAN in a RAC environment
- 8.1 RMAN in a RAC environment
- 8.2 Video: Archived logs from every thread
- 8.2 Archived logs from every thread
- 8.3 Video: Recovery scenarios in RAC
- 8.3 Recovery scenarios in RAC
- 8.4 Video: Global cache waits
- 8.4 Global cache waits
- 8.5 Video: AWR, ASH and ADDM across instances
- 8.5 AWR, ASH and ADDM across instances
- 8.6 Video: Designing applications and objects for RAC
- 8.6 Designing applications and objects for RAC
- 8.L Lab: Backing up a RAC database and recovering cluster files
  
  Lab
- Module 8 Quiz: Backup, Recovery and Tuning
  
  10 xp
Module 9 — Troubleshooting Clusterware (empty)

14Lessons · 1 hr 53 min
- 9.1 Video: Log locations and the diagnostic destination
- 9.1 Log locations and the diagnostic destination
- 9.2 Video: Diagnosing node evictions
- 9.2 Diagnosing node evictions
- 9.3 Video: Split brain and how Clusterware prevents it
- 9.3 Split brain and how Clusterware prevents it
- 9.4 Video: Backing up and restoring the OCR
- 9.4 Backing up and restoring the OCR
- 9.5 Video: Managing voting files
- 9.5 Managing voting files
- 9.6 Video: Diagnosing Clusterware startup failures
- 9.6 Diagnosing Clusterware startup failures
- 9.L Lab: Diagnosing a node eviction and a stack that will not start
  
  Lab
- Module 9 Quiz: Troubleshooting Clusterware
  
  10 xp
Module 10 — Data Guard (empty)

18Lessons · 2 hr 27 min
- 10.1 Video: Physical and logical standby databases
- 10.1 Physical and logical standby databases
- 10.2 Video: Redo transport, apply and gap resolution
- 10.2 Redo transport, apply and gap resolution
- 10.3 Video: Protection modes and their trade-offs
- 10.3 Protection modes and their trade-offs
- 10.4 Video: Configuring the Data Guard broker
- 10.4 Configuring the Data Guard broker
- 10.5 Video: Switchover, failover and reinstatement
- 10.5 Switchover, failover and reinstatement
- 10.6 Video: Active Data Guard and the read-only standby
- 10.6 Active Data Guard and the read-only standby
- 10.7 Video: Far Sync and cascaded standbys
- 10.7 Far Sync and cascaded standbys
- 10.8 Video: Data Guard with RAC
- 10.8 Data Guard with RAC
- 10.L Lab: Data Guard with the broker: build, check and switch over
  
  Lab
- Module 10 Quiz: Data Guard
  
  10 xp
Final Certification (empty)

1Lessons · 40 min
- Certification Exam: Oracle RAC, ASM and Data Guard Administration

Who should attend

Aimed at experienced DBAs taking on high-availability estates. This is not an entry-level course.

Oracle DBAs moving into clustered and high-availability environments
DBAs preparing for Oracle Certified Professional status
Apps DBAs supporting EBS or Fusion Middleware on RAC
Infrastructure engineers responsible for Grid Infrastructure and storage
Support teams inheriting production clusters

Assumed knowledge: solid single-instance Oracle Database administration including RMAN, backup and recovery, and performance diagnosis. Comfortable with Linux command line, storage concepts and networking fundamentals. Delegates without single-instance administration experience should take that course first.

Delivery

Duration
40 hours, delivered as weekday evenings or weekend sessions.

Format
Live instructor-led online, with recordings available to delegates for the duration of the programme. On-site corporate delivery available on request.

Lab environment
Each delegate receives a dedicated multi-node cluster environment for the duration of the course and for four weeks afterwards.

Included
Course notes, lab guides, exercise solutions and a certificate of completion.

How to enroll

Enrol and pay online on this page. The full fee is ₹15,000 (US$170). You can start with ₹5,000 (US$60) and pay the balance in instalments within 3 months. Pay by card, UPI or net banking, or by PayPal in US dollars. Go to payment. For corporate, on-site or one-to-one training, contact contact@appsolworld.com or call +91 92051 38405.