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Rac Interview Questions
What is RAC?
RAC stands for Real Application cluster. It is a clustering solution from Oracle
Corporation that ensures high availability of databases by providing instance
failover, media failover features.
Mention the Oracle RAC software components:-
Oracle RAC is composed of two or more database instances. They are composed
of Memory structures and background processes same as the single instance
database.Oracle RAC instances use two processes GES(Global Enqueue Service),
GCS(Global Cache Service) that enable cache fusion.Oracle RAC instances are
composed of following background processes:
ACMSAtomic Controlfile to Memory Service (ACMS)
GTX0-jGlobal Transaction Process
LMONGlobal Enqueue Service Monitor
LMDGlobal Enqueue Service Daemon
LMSGlobal Cache Service Process
LCK0Instance Enqueue Process
RMSnOracle RAC Management Processes (RMSn)
RSMNRemote Slave Monitor
What is GRD?
GRD stands for Global Resource Directory. The GES and GCS maintains records
of the statuses of each datafile and each cahed block using global resource
directory.This process is referred to as cache fusion and helps in data integrity.
What are the administrative tools used for Oracle RAC environments?
Oracle RAC cluster can be administered as a single image using OEM(Enterprise
Manager),SQL*PLUS,Servercontrol(SRVCTL),clusterverificationutility(cvu),DBCA,N
ETCA
What is FAN?
Fast application Notification as it abbreviates to FAN relates to the events related
to instances,services and nodes.This is a notification mechanism that Oracle RAc
uses to notify other processes about the configuration and service level
information that includes service status changes such as,UP or DOWN
events.Applications can respond to FAN events and take immediate action.
State the initialization parameters that must have same value for every
instance in an Oracle RAC database:-
Some initialization parameters are critical at the database creation time and must
have same values.Their value must be specified in SPFILE or PFILE for every
instance.The list of parameters that must be identical on every instance are
given below:
ACTIVE_INSTANCE_COUNT
ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET
COMPATIBLE
CLUSTER_DATABASE
CLUSTER_DATABASE_INSTANCE
CONTROL_FILES
DB_BLOCK_SIZE
DB_DOMAIN
DB_FILES
DB_NAME
DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE
DB_UNIQUE_NAME
INSTANCE_TYPE (RDBMS or ASM)
PARALLEL_MAX_SERVERS
REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORD_FILE
UNDO_MANAGEMENT
What are the modes of deleting instances from ORacle Real Application
cluster Databases?
We can delete instances using silent mode or interactive mode using
DBCA(Database Configuration Assistant).
How do we verify that an instance has been removed from OCR after
deleting an instance?
Issue the following srvctl command:
srvctl config database -d database_name
cd CRS_HOME/bin
./crs_stat