Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on Linux

Real Application Clusters and the Grid architecture are Oracle's strategy for scaling out enterprise systems to cope with higher and higher workloads and more and more users. The premise of Grid is simple: it works just like a utility (e.g. electricity) grid. You don't care which "station" you get your data from as long as you get it, and if one station goes down then it's just fetched from somewhere else without the user being any the wiser. As demand grows you just add another cheap 2-CPU Intel machine (running Linux) to the cluster.

While the premise is simple, the technology and the reality of its implementation is complex. Therefore many books are limited to talking conceptually and theoretically about the RAC technology. This book, however, will be the first to show how to actually implement and administer an Oracle 10g Real Application Cluster (RAC) system in a Linux environment. Based on extensive real world experience gained with Fortune 500 companies, this book discusses: basic concepts underlying Linux and Oracle RAC, design strategies, hardware procurement and configuration and many more.

Autorentext
John Shaw has worked in business processing and integration for over 10 years and has architected some of the largest Microsoft integration projects in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. His technical expertise includes implementing Microsoft BizTalk and messaging standards for a variety of clients in finance, supply chain, and other sectors. Most recently, he founded SphereGen, a niche company that provides a blended model of low-cost onshore and offshore solutions for its clients. Prior to that, John worked as the U.S. BizTalk Practice Lead for Conchango, where he obtained BizTalk Virtual Technical Specialist (VTS) status within Microsoft.

Klappentext

• Only book on the market to actually show you how to build an Oracle RAC cluster on Linux. Author expertise & quality: Steve Shaw's Hammerora project is one of the most visited sites in SourceForge.net. Julian Dyke is Chair of UK Oracle User Group RAC SIG and a member of the Oak Table Network. Based on latest Oracle release (10g R2) which we anticipate being the release where the largest number of customers migrate from existing single instance databases to RAC clusters. * Linux is highest growth sector in relational database market and Oracle has 69% of that market (Gartner).

  Inhalt
  to RAC.- to Linux.- RAC Concepts.- RAC Design.- Benchmarking Concepts.- Hardware.- Storage.- Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS).- Automatic Storage Management (ASM).- Installing Linux.- Configuring and Verifying Linux.- Installing and Configuring Oracle Software.- Creating and Configuring Databases.- Installing and Configuring Enterprise Manager.- Linux Administration.- Oracle Clusterware.- Application Development.- Using Administrative Tools.- Workload Management.- Adding and Deleting Nodes and Instances.- Trace and Diagnostics.- RAC Internals.- Benchmarking Tools: Hammerora and Swingbench.- Performance Monitoring.- Backup and Recovery.- Disaster Recovery.