Oracle 10g Grid and Real Application Clusters

Mike Ault and Madhu Tumma are recognized as leaders in Oracle massively-parallel architectures and authors of the bestselling book, Oracle9i RAC. Ault is one of the world's most famous Oracle authors with over 20 books in-print, and Madhu Tumma is a recognized Oracle10g Grid and RAC expert. Together, Ault and Tumma dive deep inside Oracle 10g clustering and show you the secrets for quickly implementing Oracle10g Grid technology.

Combining the expertise of two world-renowned RAC experts, Oracle10g Grid and RAC is the first-of-its-kind reference for Oracle Grid computing. Covering all areas of Oracle Grid computing, this book is indispensable for any Oracle DBA who is charged with configuring and implementing Oracle10g Grid with server blades.

This text presents a complete guide to the installation, configuration and design of Oracle Grid and 10g RAC. It supplies expert internals of shared disk technology, raw devices and RAID, and exposes the internal configuration methods for server blades. The text also demonstrates the use of Oracle Grid using the Enterprise Manager Grid control utility.

Key Features:

• See working examples of Oracle Grid and RAC installation
• Learn to configure Oracle Grid using Enterprise Manager
• View the internals of shared disk technology, raw devices and RAID with Oracle 10g Grid.
• Understand the internal concurrency, resource coordination and locking for Oracle Grid systems
• Get examples of real-time server load balancing with Oracle Grid Controller
• Use working scripts to monitor and tune Oracle Grid and RAC