Oracle 10g RAC

digipeep · 9 Apr 2008 at 01:27

My god they want £2750 for a 5 days course in it, and I don't think my employer will cough up the goods. I checked Oracle University website and they don't have a download based study course for RAC, you can get standard 10g Admin course downloaded for about £350.

I know I can download the software for free and play but it's getting the shared storage that's stumbles a real good play with this software. !0g RAC is very lucrative and as I have done some Oracle stuff I'd love to get into RAC, just look at the contracting rates on Jobserve.

Anyone else got RAC experience and did you get it elsewhere other than Oracle Uni?

Saikor · 9 Apr 2008 at 01:42

Yeah the Oracle Uni is rather expensive, and I am doubtful about how much can really be learnt in 5 days.

I did a 5 day j2ee course there and I can barely remember a thing, but I suppose it really depends on how much time you are willing to spend using it afterwards.

My advice is really just to give it a go yourself, like you say it's all free. If you don't have enough machines use vmware.

Manlove is my forte · 9 Apr 2008 at 08:42

Oracle do not support RAC on VMware

RAC seems to be a slightly differently natured beast from other oracle technologies. There is an oracle press book you can buy from most book stores for about £35 that will give you probably all the info you need to administer a RAC environment.

I'm hoping to go on a RAC course at Oracle myself as my work doesn't really have the play environments to build and destroy a cluster. Where as Oracle does.

See if your company can get a discount with oracle (they do offer them). There are also occasional free training seminars that Oracle and oracle related groups offer. I managed to get Grid Control Training this way a few years back.

Oracle do provide their own VM software (for free iirc) which goes on barebones hardware and you install the OSs on top. This does support clustering natively.

Tefal · 9 Apr 2008 at 08:46

*brain dribbles out of ear*

Thank god I chose not to do IT.

Trill · 9 Apr 2008 at 09:00

MikeTimbers · 9 Apr 2008 at 19:23

RAC requires some complex inter-networking as well. The nodes need dedicated resilient high-speed heartbeats. As far as the shared storage is concerned, use Oracle ASM on a NAS or SAN. This isn't play stuff; it requires expensive storage and network setups.

From DBAs who've done the training they get to setup up a simple system but not to diagnose/debug problems. The reason contract rates are high is because the skills are relatively rare and the systems that require RAC must, by definition, be highly valuable systems.