International Journal of New Technology and Research (IJNTR)

ISSN: 2454-4116, Volume-3, Issue-2, February 2017 Pages 44-47

Implementation of Oracle RAC on Oracle Cloud

Skant Gupta, Anuradha Mudgal

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Abstract: -Today’s world is all about technology .Our life is III. RAC EVOLUTION
Oracle 8i OPS implementation brought in many outstanding
contingent upon technology. Little change in technology makes
huge differences on today’s business. Cloud computing is a improvements done by oracle Corporation. The extraordinary
virtualized compute power and storage delivered via new feature was the lunched of cache fusion technology.
platform-agnostic infrastructure of abstracted hardware and Cache fusion, as appraise earlier, In Rac cache, or SGA, from
software accessed over the internet. the multiple instances coordinates the buffers and manages
In this paper you will acquire details about cloud computing. the database access. Oracle 8i (OPS) introduced the initial
We have provided brief about oracle database, Oracle RAC and phase of cache fusion. The data blocks were transferred from
oracle cloud computing. This paper focused on advantages of the SGA of one instance to the SGA of another instance
cloud computing and how do we can setup Oracle RAC on without the need to write the blocks to disk. In Rac main
cloud.
aimed at reducing the ping overhead of data blocks. After
Index Terms— Oracle RAC, Oracle Cloud, Database as a
service. partial implementation of cache fusion in Oracle 8i could
help only in certain conditions.
I. INTRODUCTION
IV. THE BENEFITS OF REAL APPLICATION CLUSTERS
Data is a most important element of any alliance. Due to its
importance we must make us sure that our data is secure from • Lower Overall Cost of Ownership
all kind of data loss. Data plays a very essential role in each n • Expanded Scalability
every department of an organization like IT department, • High Availability
R&D department, HR department, Finance department, sales • Transparency
departments etc. In the world of hi tech. there are lots of • Buffer Cache Management
options are available in the like market. Due to lots of option • Row Locking
available in the market user can choose any database • Recovery Manager, Online Backups, and Archiving
according to their cost, volume of data, quality etc. We have • Ability to spread CPU load across multiple servers
some example of most saleable database like Oracle, DB2, • Continuous Availability / High Availability (HA)
MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server and Sybase. • RAC can take advantage of larger SGA sizes
Oracle Database is the first RDBMS database designed for • Scalability
enterprise grid computing, the most flexible and cost • While choosing RAC for used as a cost savings solution
effective way to manage information and applications by • Never choose RAC to scale
Oracle Corporation on 1977. Oracle database is better option
for any organization because of its Reliability, Functionality,
Customer Satisfaction and Flashback Technology, V. WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?
consistency, isolation, atomicity and durability. As we know technology change day by day for make our life
The database has logical structures and physical structures. easy. New inventions occur every day. Cloud Computing is
Because the physical and logical structures are separate, the in trend of technology. We can have some popular cloud
physical storage of data can be managed without affecting the computing products like Oracle Cloud, Amazon Web
access to logical storage structures. Service, Google Cloud Platform Services, Microsoft Azure
etc. are some example of most saleable products now a days.
II. ORACLE RAC Cloud computing means that type of computing which
When we talk about oracle database that is related to single depends on sharing computing resources rather than having
database only. Data is increasing day by day. Due to local servers or personal devices to handle applications.
increment of data organization has too switch in to Oracle Cloud computing is akin to grid computing which is unused
RAC. RAC stands for Oracle Real Application Clusters processing cycles of all computers in a network are harnesses
.Oracle Clusterware is a portable cluster management to solve problems too intensive for any stand-alone machine.
solution that is integrated with Oracle Database. Oracle We have big advantage in cloud computing that it is based on
Clusterware is also a required component for using Oracle shared, elastic resources delivered to users in a self-service,
RAC. In addition, Oracle Clusterware enables both metered manner using web technologies.
single-instance Oracle databases and Oracle RAC databases
to use the Oracle high-availability infrastructure. Oracle VI. WHAT IS ORACLE CLOUD?
Clusterware enables us to create a clustered pool of storage to As earlier topics we have discussed about RDBMS, Oracle
be used by any combination of single-instance and Oracle RAC now time to get aware about latest technology of Oracle
RAC databases. Corporation in database. 12c is a latest version in oracle
database. C stands for cloud computing Oracle Cloud is the
Skant Gupta, Senior DBA, Etisalat, Abu Dhabi, UAE, industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud. Oracle
Anuradha Mudgal, DBA, SilverTouch Technologies, Delhi, India. provides best-in-class services across software as a service

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(SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a

service (IaaS), and even lets you put Oracle Cloud in your
own data center. Oracle Cloud succor organizations drive
innovation and business by increasing business agility,
lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity.
Advantages of Oracle Cloud Computing
1. Oracle Cloud provides maximum performance and value
to businesses.
2. In Oracle Cloud we have new feature that we can run
Oracle's modern Fusion Applications out of the box.
3. Social relationship platform for engaging customers,
partners, and employees easily can make in cloud computing.
4. Social brilliance and inbound insights are part of it.
5. One new feature of Optimizes Platform-as-a-Service
integration with Oracle Cloud applications is available in
oracle cloud.
6. Customers have more independence and decision-making
in hands of customers.
7. Customers world-class security and architecture are on
priority of cloud computing.
8. Customers can create itineraries for upgrades according
their comforts.
9. Release of money and time for customers via completeness
of the end-to-end solution.
10. Systems integrators function is available for Frees
customers.

VII. CREATION OF ORACLE RAC DATABASE IN THE CLOUD.

We will show you how to create an Oracle RAC Database in

the cloud. To do this, we enter with our account for Oracle
cloud services, go to the "Oracle Database Cloud Service"
page and create a new service.
We provide the Service name then we choose “Oracle
Database Cloud Service” as Subscription Type, also provide Fig.2. Explains about the administrator’s password.
the SSH public key.
Step 1: Explains about the selection of the database’s release
as shown in the figure. Select a database "release" and we
chose "Enterprise Edition - Extreme Performance" as
Software Edition. Then we continue with a click on "Next".

Elaborate about we provide an Administration Password

Which is used as your sys password, DB name (SID) with
respective (PDB Name) and mark the “Database Clustering
with RAC" checkbox. Then we continue with a click on
"Next".

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Step 2: Finally, we check the configuration and click on Step 4: we click on the service name (CloudRac) to open the
"Create" to create Oracle RAC database on cloud. main page of both instances of RAC.

Fig.4. Opening of instance with RAC

Step 5: Now we are going to open two different instances of

the "Putty" executable and we are going to connect SSH to
both machines.

Fig.5. Connection with putty

Fig. 3 Creation Summary Step 6: We connect to both instances and check the pmon on
each server.
After a few minutes, Oracle RAC database is created
successfully.

Fig 4. Main Service console

Fig.6. Check of pmon process

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Step 7: We check number of instance in Oracle RAC VIII. CONCLUSION

database as shown below.
It is very easy to create a RAC database in the cloud.
Moreover monitoring and troubleshooting is also not much
difficult.

REFERENCES
[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/get-started/subscriptio
ns-cloud/csgsg/index.html
[2] http://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/database-dbaas-clo
ud/csdbi/index.html

Skant Gupta working as Senior Database Administrator in Etisalat

Dubai with 5 years of industry experience.
 Published an Oracle Technical Paper in ― Cloud
Computing in Oracle
 Oracle Cloud Certified
 Oracle 12c Certified Professional

Anuradha Mudgal working as Database Administrator in SilverTouch

Technologies with 2 years of industry experience.
 Oracle 10g Certified Professional
Fig.7 checking number of instance

Step 8: We can cross verify the status of Oracle Database by

using “srvctl” utility.

Fig.8. cross verify the status of Oracle Database.

Step 9: Now we are connecting to “grid” user and check the

clusterware resource by using “crsctl” utility.

Fig.9. Connection with “grid”

Step 10: Now we can connect to PDB database in each

instance of Oracle RAC.

Fig.10. Connection with PDB

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