Grid architecture is Oracle´s strategy for high-end computing and RAC is the stepping stone into this arena. This book focuses on current technology including all valid RAC features up through Oracle Database 10g Release 2, with a primary focus on deploying it in a high-end grid environment. The book discusses this technology at length which users will find beneficial when researching, implementing or monitoring a RAC environment. The author covers workshop implementation of services and the distribution of workload across instances, with threshold definitions and the new load balancing algorithms. In addition it includes detailed discussions on ASM that complements the implementation of RAC in Oracle Grid strategy. The book also includes discussions on new Oracle Clusterware, its components and its integration with RAC.
Oracle 10g RAC focuses on RAC-specific topics including ASM, operating system configuration, installation and configuration of RAC and much more. Coverage includes network configuration for high availability, FAN, TAF, ONS, implementation of maximum availability architecture (MAA), EM Grid Control, AWR, ADDM and other performance-related tools. The author includes several scripts for performance tuning and implementation that the reader can use to configure a RAC environment either on a 2, 4, 8, 60 or 99 node configuration.

Features coverage of:

-Implementing, testing and tuning features of Real Application Clusters (RAC) Database 10g Release 2;
-Usage, day-to-day functions and operations, as well as tips and techniques such as script samples to illustrate various features of RAC;
-Implementing a distributed workload environment;
-Storage configuration using Automatic Storage Management (ASM);
-High availability features, FAN, ONS, TAF, FCF and the new runtime connection load balancing;
-Monitoring the RAC environment using Oracle´s Automatic Workload Repository(AWR) and Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM);
-Discussions with examples of services-based deployment of RAC and on integration and monitoring of RAC;
-Covers the internals of Oracle Clusterware and RAC.