Front Cover -- Oracle® 10g RAC Grid, Services & Clustering -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Contributors -- About the Technical Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- About This Book -- How to Use This Book -- Chapter 1. Oracle Grid -- 1.1 Electric power grid -- 1.2 Computational grids -- 1.3 Evolution -- 1.4 Enterprise grid computing -- 1.5 Globus Toolkit -- 1.6 Oracle grid -- 1.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Real Application Cluster Architecture -- 2.1 RAC components -- 2.2 Real Application Cluster -- 2.3 Background processes in RAC -- 2.4 Database files in RAC -- 2.5 Maintaining read consistency in RAC -- 2.6 Cache fusion -- 2.7 Global Resource Directory -- 2.8 Mastering of resources -- 2.9 Lock management -- 2.10 Multi-instance transaction behavior -- 2.11 Recovery -- 2.12 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Storage Management -- 3.1 Disk fundamentals -- 3.2 Data operations -- 3.3 SAME -- 3.4 Oracle Managed Files -- 3.5 Storage options for RAC -- 3.6 Automatic storage management (ASM) -- 3.7 Migration to ASM -- 3.8 ASM performance monitoring using EM -- 3.9 ASM implementations -- 3.10 ASM instance crash -- 3.11 ASM disk administration -- 3.12 Client connection to an ASM instance -- 3.13 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Installation and Configuration -- 4.1 Optimal Flexible Architecture -- 4.2 Selecting the clusterware -- 4.3 Operating system configuration -- 4.4 Network configuration -- 4.5 NIC bonding -- 4.6 Verify interprocess communication buffer sizes -- 4.7 Jumbo frames -- 4.8 Remote access setup -- 4.9 Configuring the kernel -- 4.10 Configuring the hangcheck timer on Linux systems -- 4.11 Configuring and synchronizing the system clock -- 4.12 Installing Oracle -- 4.13 Additional information -- 4.14 Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Services and Distributed Workload Management -- 5.1 Service framework.

5.2 Distributed workload management -- 5.3 Fast Application Notification -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Failover and Load-Balancing -- 6.1 Failover -- 6.2 Load-balancing -- 6.3 Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Oracle Clusterware Administration Quick Reference -- 7.1 Node verification using olsnodes -- 7.2 Oracle Control Registry -- 7.3 ONS control (onsctl) utility -- 7.4 EVMD verification -- 7.5 Oracle Clusterware interface -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Backup and Recovery -- 8.1 Recovery Manager -- 8.2 RMAN components -- 8.3 Recovery features -- 8.4 Configuring RMAN for RAC -- 8.5 Backup and recovery strategy -- 8.6 Configuring RMAN -- 8.7 Reporting in RMAN -- 8.8 Recovery -- 8.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Performance Tuning -- 9.1 Methodology -- 9.2 Storage subsystem -- 9.3 Automatic Storage Management -- 9.4 Cluster interconnect -- 9.5 Interconnect transfer rate -- 9.6 SQL*Net tuning -- 9.7 SQL tuning -- 9.8 Sequences and index contention -- 9.9 Undo block considerations -- 9.10 Load-balancing -- 9.11 Resource availability -- 9.12 Response time -- 9.13 Oracle Wait Interface -- 9.14 Server/database statistics -- 9.15 Service-level metrics -- 9.16 Identifying blockers across instances -- 9.17 Identifying hot blocks -- 9.18 Monitoring remastering -- 9.19 Operating system tuning -- 9.20 Automatic workload repository -- 9.21 Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor -- 9.22 Active session history -- 9.23 EM Grid Control -- 9.24 Conclusion -- Chapter 10. MAA and More -- 10.1 Data Guard -- 10.2 Oracle Streams -- 10.3 Extended clusters -- 10.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 11. Best Practices -- 11.1 Planning -- 11.2 Implementation -- 11.3 Database creation -- 11.4 Application deployment -- 11.5 Operations -- 11.6 Conclusion -- A References -- B Utilities and Scripts -- B.1 SRVCTL - Server Control -- B.2 Cluster ready service (CRS) utility -- B.3 ORADEBUG - Oracle Debugger.

B.4 Perl Script -- B.5 RMAN Scripts -- C Oracle Clustered File System -- C.1 OCFS 1.0 -- C.2 OCFS2 -- C.3 Conclusion -- D TAF and FCF using Java -- D.1 TAF example using Java -- E Migration(s) -- E.1 Oracle 9iR2 to 10gR2 RAC -- E.2 Data migration from OCFS to ASM -- E.3 Conclusion -- F Adding Additional Nodes to an Existing Oracle 10g R2 Cluster on Linux -- F.1 Current environment -- F.2 Conclusion -- Index.