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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