Cloning Oracle Homes on Windows Systems ....................................................................................

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10 Adding and Deleting Oracle RAC from Nodes on Linux and UNIX Systems
Adding Oracle RAC to Nodes with Oracle Clusterware Installed.............................................. 10-1
Adding Policy-Managed Oracle RAC Database Instances to Target Nodes.......................... 10-2
Adding Administrator-Managed Oracle RAC Database Instances to Target Nodes ........... 10-3
Using DBCA in Interactive Mode to Add Database Instances to Target Nodes ............ 10-4
Using DBCA in Silent Mode to Add Database Instances to Target Nodes ..................... 10-5
Deleting Oracle RAC from a Cluster Node...................................................................................... 10-5
Deleting Instances from Oracle RAC Databases ........................................................................ 10-5
Using DBCA in Interactive Mode to Delete Instances from Nodes ................................. 10-7
Using DBCA in Silent Mode to Delete Instances from Nodes .......................................... 10-7
Removing Oracle RAC ................................................................................................................... 10-8
Deleting Nodes from the Cluster .................................................................................................. 10-9

11 Adding and Deleting Oracle RAC from Nodes on Windows Systems

Adding Oracle RAC to Nodes with Oracle Clusterware Installed.............................................. 11-2
Adding Administrator-Managed Oracle RAC Database Instances to Target Nodes ........... 11-2
Using DBCA in Interactive Mode to Add Database Instances to Target Nodes ............ 11-3
Using DBCA in Silent Mode to Add Database Instances to Target Nodes ..................... 11-4
Deleting Oracle RAC from a Cluster Node...................................................................................... 11-4
Deleting Instances from Oracle RAC Databases ........................................................................ 11-5
Using DBCA in Interactive Mode to Delete Instances from Nodes ................................. 11-6
Using DBCA in Silent Mode to Delete Instances from Nodes .......................................... 11-7
Removing Oracle RAC ................................................................................................................... 11-7
Deleting Nodes from the Cluster .................................................................................................. 11-8

12 Design and Deployment Techniques

Deploying Oracle RAC for High Availability ................................................................................. 12-1
About Designing a High Availability System............................................................................. 12-1
Best Practices for Deploying Oracle RAC in a High Availability Environment.................... 12-2
Consolidating Multiple Applications in a Database or Multiple Databases in a Cluster..... 12-3
Scalability of Oracle RAC............................................................................................................... 12-4
General Design Considerations for Oracle RAC ............................................................................ 12-5
General Database Deployment Topics for Oracle RAC ................................................................ 12-5
Tablespace Use in Oracle RAC...................................................................................................... 12-6
Object Creation and Performance in Oracle RAC ..................................................................... 12-6
Node Addition and Deletion and the SYSAUX Tablespace in Oracle RAC........................... 12-6
Distributed Transactions and Oracle RAC .................................................................................. 12-6
Deploying OLTP Applications in Oracle RAC ........................................................................... 12-7
Flexible Implementation with Cache Fusion .............................................................................. 12-7
Deploying Data Warehouse Applications with Oracle RAC.................................................... 12-7
Speed-Up for Data Warehouse Applications on Oracle RAC ........................................... 12-7
Parallel Execution in Data Warehouse Systems and Oracle RAC .................................... 12-8
Data Security Considerations in Oracle RAC ............................................................................. 12-8
Transparent Data Encryption and Wallets........................................................................... 12-8

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