Table of contents : Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 8 1 Oracle Grid......Page 28 2 Real Application Cluster Architecture......Page 42 3 Storage Management......Page 96 4 Installation and Configuration......Page 164 5 Services and Distributed Workload Management......Page 236 6 Failover and Load-Balancing......Page 286 7 Oracle Clusterware Administration Quick Reference......Page 338 8 Backup and Recovery......Page 372 9 Performance Tuning......Page 408 10 MAA and More......Page 490 11 Best Practices......Page 548 A References......Page 574 B Utilities and Scripts......Page 576 C Oracle Clustered File System......Page 590 D TAF and FCF using Java......Page 608 E Migration(s)......Page 620 F Adding Additional Nodes to an Existing Oracle 10g R2 Cluster on Linux......Page 652 Index......Page 676