Oracle 11g RAC Architecture overview
DBA Team 12/11/2012
We will cover
Oracle Database Architecture
Memory Background processes
Cluster Scan Storage Services Failovers
RAC Architecture
ASM Architecture RAC Installation
Presteps for Installation Installation
Patching/Upgrades. Backups and Restore Planning and Strategy Monitoring for Performance Pro Active and Reactive.
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Database Architecture
Logical and Physical Structure
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Oracle Database Architecture
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Memory Structure
Server Process 1
PGA
Server Process 2
PGA
Background Process
PGA
Shared SQL Area
Data Dictionary Cache Others
Library Cache Redo Log Buffer
Shared Pool I/O Buffer
Free Memory Request Queue
Database buffer Cache
Java Pool
Streams Pool
Response Queue
Large Pool
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Background Processes
User Process : -Is Started when a database process or batch process connect to a database. Database Processes : -Server Process : Connect to the Oracle instance and is started when a user establishes a session -Background process - are started when oracle instance is started.
Instance Database Buffer Cache Background process Shared Pool Redo Library Cache Log Buffer
Data Dictionary Cache
PGA
Background Process
User Process Server Process
DBWn CKPT LGWR SMON PMON ARCn Others
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Physical Files.
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Real Application Cluster 11gR2
RAC Software Stack
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GI and process dependencies
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Its important with RAC
OCR Oracle Cluster Registry
Contains all information about cluster resources
Node membership Heart beat. Local only Oracle Local Registry Stores important security context used by OHAS Locate Voting disk.
Voting Disk
OLR
Cache Fusion Read Consistency SCN. GRD, GCS and GES
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GRD, GES and GCS - Simplified
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Scan Listener
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ASM Architecture
ASM Automatic storage management
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ASM to DB Instance Connection.
DBW0
ASMB
ARB0
ARBa
RBAL
FG
RBAL
GMON
A S M
ASM Disks
d i s k g r o u p
ASM Disks ASM Disks
A S M
ASM Disks
d i s k g r o u p
ASM Disks ASM Disks
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Grid Infrastructure Install
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Patches/Upgrades
One-Off Patch Merge Level Request Patch MLR Critical Update Patch CPU Patch Set Updates PSU Patch Set Major Release update.
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Example of RAC Database - Wilson Database
Wilson Production AC4
ac4-ngdrptdb001
RDBMS Instance SPNGD1
ac4-ngdrptdb002
RDBMS Instance SPNGD2
ac4-ngdrptdb003
RDBMS Instance SPNGD3
ac4-ngdrptdb004
RDBMS Instance SPNGD4
ac4-ngdrptdb005
RDBMS Instance SPNGD5
ac4-ngdrptdb006
RDBMS Instance SPNGD6
ASM Instance +ASM1
ASM Instance +ASM2
ASM Instance +ASM3
ASM Instance +ASM4
ASM Instance +ASM5
ASM Instance +ASM6
Disk Group1
Disk Group2
Disk Group3
Disk1
Disk2
Disk3 Physical Device
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Physical Device
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Instance Service mapping.
Database
spngd
Instances
spngd1
spngd2
spngd3
spngd4
spngd5
spngd6
Loaders
Critical Loader
Non Critical Loader ngd_nc_d alo_svc
Loaders services
ngd_dalo _svc
Reporting - SARQ
Network
IO
Creative
Misc
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Load Balancing and Failovers
Load Balancing Client Side Server Side Transparent Application Failover Failover Modes Session Failover Select Failover None ( default ) Failover Methods Basic Pre connect Fast Application Notification. Up and down events for Cluster reconfig
Instance 1 Preferred Node
Batch_svc
Instance 2
Available Node
Service
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Performance Reactive and Proactive
Wait Events on Active Sessions Long Running Queries Explain plans for queries
Resource intensive
Adivsors ASH Report AWR Report
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Backups - Strategy
Snapshot Daily / Incremental Daily / Full weekly
Tape
Disk
Lun Based Snap mirror Backup
RMAN Backups
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Presentation Complete.
Any Questions ?
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