Oracle Database Appliance Release 18c Overview

Oracle Database Appliance Release 18c Overview

Oracle Database Appliance is a highly available all-in-one cluster, database, and storage server with built in redundant and hot swappable components that simplify deployment, maintenance, and support. This course equips the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to deploy Oracle Database Appliance for Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), Oracle RAC One Node, and Oracle Database single instance environments using bare metal or virtualized platforms.

Duration: 2 Days

Prerequisites

• Knowledge and understanding of Oracle Database 18c, including Automatic Storage Management, Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System, and Real Application Clusters
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux along with a general understanding of networking, storage, and system administration concepts
• Oracle Database: Administration Workshop (suggested)
• Oracle Database: Backup and Recovery Workshop (suggested)
• Oracle Database 12c R2: Clusterware Administration (suggested)
• Oracle Database 12c: RAC Administration (suggested)
• Oracle Database 12c R2: ASM Administration (suggested)
• Oracle VM Server for x86: Administration (suggested)
• Oracle Linux System Administration I (suggested)

Audience

• Database Administrators
• Engineered Systems Administrators
• Support Engineers
• Systems Administrators
• Systems Analysts
• Technical Administrators

Learning Objectives

• Describe an Oracle Database Appliance engineered system
• Prepare for Oracle Database installation and deployment
• Rack and cable a new Oracle Database Appliance engineered system
• Configure Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager
• Power on the system for the first time and define network options
• Deploy a bare metal platform for single-node and multi-node machines
• Understand backup and recovery options and configure backup and recovery
• Validate Oracle Appliance Manager software version
• Download and install the latest Oracle Database Appliance patch bundle to update the appliance
• Download and install the latest Oracle Database Appliance RDBMS Software Clone files to update the databases
• Re-image the operating system
• Deploy virtualized platform for multi-node machines
• Download and install the latest Oracle Database Appliance base template for virtualized platform deployments

Topics

• Introduction to Oracle Database Appliance
• Introduction to Deployments
• Preparing for Deployments
• Bare Metal Deployments
• Patching Bare Metal Deployments
• Managing Databases
• Oracle Database Appliance Backup and Recovery
• Administering Bare Metal Deployments
• Introduction to Virtualized Platform Deployments
• Preparing for OVM Virtualized Platform Deployments
• Virtualized Platform Deployments
• Patching in a Virtualized Platform
• Managing Databases
• Administering Virtualized Platform Deployments