Ronny Egners Blog

Oracle 11g Release 2 was released on 1st of September 2009. From my point of view this version will be the next widely used version after 10 Release 2. In myopinion 11g Release 1 is a quite good and stable version – but it is a “Release 1″ and many ISVs waited for 11g R2 to apperas to certify their products against.

I am investigating Oracle 11g Release 2 over the next few weeks starting with a single database installation, installing a 2-node-rac with ASM, testing ADVM and ACFS. Finally i will investigate database features, for instance advanced compression.

I will continuously publish my experiences on this blog.

The installation and configuration guide is available as either a complete presentation or as a couple of posts.

The whole guide as presentation can be found here: Link

Separate guides are available here:

• Oracle 11g Release 2 Overview

• Single Database
  • Single Database binary installation
  • Single Database creation

• Real Application Cluster (RAC) database and infrastructure
  • install grid infrastructure (formerly Clusterware and ASM)
  • first contact with ADVM and ACFS
  • installing oracle database binaries in ACFS shared home
  • creating RAC database
• Automatic Storage Management
  • ASM data safety – crash and recovery scenarios
• SCAN (Single Cluster Access Name)
  • SCAN explained
  • Set up your own small dns server for SCAN

If there are any questions drop me a mail for just leave a comment.

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