Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability: Maximize Your Availability with Grid Infrastructure, RAC and Data Guard

by Scott Jesse, Bill Burton, Bryan Vongray

Overview

Leverage Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability Features

Protect your critical business assets and achieve maximum database uptime using the detailed information in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability: Maximize Your Availability with Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Real Application Clusters, and Oracle Data Guard, Second Edition provides cost-effective solutions to current availability challenges. Discover how to grid-enable your IT framework, roll out Oracle Real Application Clusters, maintain standby databases, and deploy Oracle Flashback. Monitoring, tuning, and disaster recovery techniques are also covered in this comprehensive resource.

• Install Oracle Clusterware (as part of Oracle's grid infrastructure) or upgrade from an earlier version
• Build test clusters and hosts using Oracle VM
• Work with Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System
• Create synchronized standby databases using Oracle Data Guard
• Reliably archive and restore data with Oracle Recovery Manager
• Use Oracle Flashback to identify and undo user errors
• Configure Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control for management of an Oracle maximum availability architecture environment

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071752077
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	04/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	592
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Scott Jesse has worked for Oracle since 1996 and is currently Customer Support Senior Manager for the RAC Assurance Team. He has served as the Global Team Lead and as a member of the Advanced Resolution and Escalations team within Oracle Support. Scott is the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g High Availability with RAC, Flashback, and Data Guard and Oracle9i for Windows 2000 Tips & Techniques, both from Oracle Press.

Bill Burton joined Oracle in 1998 and is currently a member of the Development RAC Assurance Team. He co-wrote and presented the “Upgrading to 11gR2” session at Oracle OpenWorld 2010.

Bryan Vongray is a member of the RAC Assurance Team within Oracle Global Customer Support. He specialized in Oracle High Availability with specific focus on Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Streams, backup and recovery, and Oracle Grid Control. Bryan has planned and implemented Oracle HA Solution for several high profile Oracle customers.

Table of Contents

Part I: Grid Infrastructure
1 A Week (Or Month, or Day) in the Life of Horatio Alger
2 Oracle VM
3 Grid Infrastructure Introduction and Overview
4 Grid Infrastructure Installation & Maintenance
5 Automatic Storage Management and ACFS
Part II: Real Application Clusters
6 RAC Setup/Configuration
7 RAC Administration
8 Utility Computing – Applications as Services
Part III: Disaster Planning
9 Oracle Data Guard
10 Media Backups
11 Flashback Recovery
12 Oracle Grid Control
Appendix A The HA Testing Environment