Oracle Database 11g Oracle Real Application Clusters Handbook, 2nd Edition, 2nd Edition

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART IHigh Availability Architecture and Clusters

1 Introduction to High Availability and Scalability

High Availability

HA Terminology

Planned and Unplanned Outages

An End-to-End Perspective

Cost of Downtime

Building Redundant Components

Common Solutions for HA

Cluster, Cold Failover, and Hot Failover

HA Option Pros and Cons

Scalability

Oracle Real Application Clusters Solution

Emerging Trends

Oracle 11g Solutions

In a Nutshell

2 Clustering Basics and History

Grid Computing with Clusters

Shared Storage in Clustering

Types of Clustering Architectures

History of Oracle RAC

Oracle Parallel Storage Evaluation

Oracle Parallel Server Architecture

Components of an OPS Database

Cluster Group Services (CGS) ...