Monday, September 30, 2019

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 19c - Best Practices and Internals Summary

Today's post is another shout out to an excellent presentation by Anil Nair Oracle Senior Principal Product Manager on Real Application Clusters 19c - Best Practices and Internals Summary.

Here is a brief summary of the presentation by Anil:
  • Oracle 19c Upgrade Best Practices.
  • Oracle 19c Grid Infrastructure New Features.
  • What's new with Oracle Cache Fusion?
  • Oracle 19c requires Linux 7.
  • One Command for all Autoupgrade checks.
  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure Management Repository is no longer mandatory with 19c
  • gridSetup can now be run with a -dryRunForUpgrade option for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrades.
  • Faster Cloning can be done with Real Only Oracle Homes (ROOH) store as Oracle Configuration files are stored outside of the Oracle Home.
  • You can patch faster with -SwitchHome.
  • New Grid Infrastructure (GI) Resource Modeling for PDBs.
  • Oracle Clusterware Runtime Diagnostics.
  • Oracle 19c Clusterware attempts to auto-diagnose unsuccessful startup issues.
  • Private Network Interface Check.
  • Oracle Clusterware Ciphers.
  • Optimized Resource Master Placement.
  • Real Application Clusters (RAC) Performance Automation.
  • RAC Exadata optimizations.
To summarize, Oracle RAC 19c is improved and optimized with a lot of automations to make the DBA's life easier than before. Check out Anil's presentation here.

Enjoy the new features of Oracle RAC 19c.

Cheers.

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