CHAPTER 8 High Availability: RAC, ASM, and Data Guard

CRITICAL SKILLS

8.1 Define High Availability

8.2 Understand Real Application Clusters

8.3 Install RAC

8.4 Test RAC

8.5 Set Up the ASM Instance

8.6 Create ASM Disk Groups

8.7 Use ASMCMD and ASMLIB

8.8 Convert an Existing Database to ASM

8.9 Understand Data Guard

8.10 Explain Data Guard Protection Modes

8.11 Create a Physical Standby Server

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