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Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Structure

Related Documents

Conventions

What's New in Deployment and Performance?

Oracle Database 10g New Features in RAC Deployment and Performance

1 Introduction to Deployment and Performance

Real Application Clusters Documentation Overview

Oracle Real Application Clusters Administrator's Guide

Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide and Oracle Real Application Clusters Quick Installation Guide for Oracle Database Standard Edition for Windows

Overview of Deploying Applications on Real Application Clusters

Implementing Oracle Features with Real Application Clusters

Cluster File Systems in Real Application Clusters

Storage Management Features and Real Application Clusters

Services in Oracle Database 10g

Cluster Ready Services and High Availability in Real Application Clusters

Cluster Ready Services

Cluster Ready Services and High Availability

Additional Oracle High Availability Features and Solutions

Connection Load Balancing in Real Application Clusters

Recovery Manager (RMAN) in Real Application Clusters

Data Guard

Primary/Secondary Instance Configurations in Earlier Releases

2 Design and Deployment Techniques

Service Configuration Recommendations for High Availability

Service Topologies and Managing Workloads in Real Application Clusters Environments

Recommended Real Application Clusters Service Configurations

Automatic Workload Repository

Setting Service Levels and Thresholds

How Cluster Ready Services Manages Service Relocation

General Database Deployment Topics for Real Application Clusters

Tablespace Use in Real Application Clusters

Object Creation and Performance in Real Application Clusters

Node Addition and Deletion and the SYSAUX Tablespace in Real Application Clusters

Distributed Transactions and Oracle Real Application Clusters

3 Monitoring Performance

Overview of Monitoring Real Application Clusters Databases

Verifying the Interconnect Settings for Real Application Clusters

Influencing Interconnect Processing

Performance Views in Real Application Clusters

Real Application Clusters Performance Statistics

The Content of Real Application Clusters Statistics

Automatic Workload Repository in Real Application Clusters Environments

Monitoring RAC Statistics and Events

RAC statistics and events in AWR and Statspack reports

Wait Events for RAC

Monitoring Performance by Analyzing GCS and GES Statistics

Analyzing Cache Fusion Impact in Real Application Clusters

Analyzing Performance Using GCS and GES Statistics

Analyzing Cache Fusion Transfer Impact Using GCS Statistics

Analyzing Response Times Based on Wait Events

4 Monitoring Performance with Oracle Enterprise Manager

Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager for Real Application Clusters

Enterprise Manager Performance Pages for Real Application Clusters

Using the Cluster Performance Page

Using the Cluster Database Performance Page

Using the Cluster Cache Coherency Page

Using the Cluster Cache Coherency Instances Page

Service Relocation and High Availability Events

5 Application-Specific Deployment Topics

General Deployment Strategies for Real Application Clusters-Based Applications

Deploying OLTP Applications in Real Application Clusters

Flexible Implementation with Cache Fusion

Deploying Data Warehouse Applications with Real Application Clusters

Speed-Up for Data Warehouse Applications on Real Application Clusters

Parallel Execution in Data Warehouse Systems and RAC

Using Parallel Instance Groups

A Services Deployment Example

Configuration Planning

Service Planning

Cluster Node and Network Interface Planning

Manual Configuration for High Availability

Step 1. Add Node Applications

Step 2. Add Database and Instance Applications

Step 3. Add Service Applications

Using Services

Using Services with Client Applications

TNS Connection Description for ERP Service

TNS Connection Description for ERP Service with TAF BASIC

TNS Connection Description for ERP Service with TAF Preconnect

Thick JDBC Connection Description for ERP Service

Thin JDBC Connection Description for ERP Service

Listener Configuration for Services

Sample listener.ora Entry

Sample Remote Listener Entries

Oracle Instance Parameters

Manual Configuration for Workload Management

Step 1. Add Service Priorities

Step 2. Add Job Classes

Step 3. Add Service Performance Thresholds

Step 4. Enable Service, Module, and Action Monitoring

Using Services with Job Scheduler

Using Callouts for Fast Application Notification

Configuring JDBC Fast Application Notification

Configuring the JDBC Client Side

Configuring the RAC High Availability Server Side

Step 1 - Configure the ONS Daemon

Step 2 - Check that the ONS Daemon is Running

Using a Shared Oracle Home

Events for Shadow Preconnect Services in Real Application Clusters

High Availability Callouts and Oracle Notification Events

Index