Oracle Exadata Recipes

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Oracle Exadata Recipes takes an example-based, problem/solution approach in showing how to size, install, configure, manage, monitor, optimize, and migrate Oracle database workloads on and to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Whether you’re an Oracle Database administrator, Unix/Linux administrator, storage administrator, network administrator, or Oracle developer, Oracle Exadata Recipes provides effective and proven solutions to accomplish a wide variety of tasks on the Exadata Database Machine. You can feel confident using the reliable solutions that are demonstrated in this book in your enterprise Exadata environment.

Managing Oracle Exadata is unlike managing a traditional Oracle database. Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine is a pre-configured engineered system comprised of hardware and software, built to deliver extreme performance for Oracle Database workloads. Exadata delivers extreme performance by offering an optimally balanced hardware infrastructure with fast components at each layer of the engineered technology stack, as well as a unique set of Oracle software features designed to leverage the high-performing hardware infrastructure by reducing I/O demands. Let Oracle Exadata Recipes help you translate your existing Oracle Database knowledge into the exciting new growth area that is Oracle Exadata.

Helps extend your Oracle Database skillset to the fast-growing, Exadata platform
Presents information on managing Exadata in a helpful, example-based format
Clearly explains unique Exadata software and hardware features

What you’ll learn

Install and configure Exadata
Manage your Exadata hardware infrastructure
Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues
Manage smart scan and cell offload processing
Take advantage of Hybrid Columnar Compression
Deploy Smart Flash Cache and Smart Flash Logging
Ensure the health of your Exadata environment

Who this book is for
Oracle Exadata Recipes is for Oracle Database administrators, Unix/Linux administrators, storage administrators, backup administrators, network administrators, and Oracle developers who want to quickly learn to develop effective and proven solutions without reading through a lengthy manual scrubbing for techniques. Readers in a hurry will appreciate the recipe format that sets up solutions to common tasks as the centerpiece of the book.

Table of Contents
Part 1 :Exadata Architecture
Chapter 1. Exadata Hardware
Chapter 2. Exadata Software
Chapter 3. How Oracle Works on Exadata

Part 2: Preparing for Exadata
Chapter 4. Workload Qualification
Chapter 5. Sizing Exadata
Chapter 6. Preparing for Exadata

Part 3: Exadata Administration
Chapter 7. Administration and Diagnostics Utilities
Chapter 8. Backup and Recovery
Chapter 9. Storage Administration
Chapter 10. Network Administration
Chapter 11. Patching and Upgrades
Chapter 12. Security

Part 4: Monitoring Exadata
Chapter 13. Monitoring Exadata Storage Cells
Chapter 14. Host and Database Performance Monitoring

Part 5: Exadata Software
Chapter 15. Smart Scan and Cell Offload
Chapter 16. Hybrid Columnar Compression
Chapter 17. I/O Resource Management and Instance Caging
Chapter 18. Smart Flash Cache and Smart Flash Logging
Chapter 19. Storage Indexes

Part 6: Post Implementation Tasks
Chapter 20. Post-Installation Monitoring Tasks
Chapter 21. Post-Install Database Tasks