Preface

The Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide describes the Oracle Clusterware and Real Application Clusters (RAC) architectures and provides an overview of these products. This book also describes administrative and deployment topics for Oracle Clusterware and RAC.

Information in this manual applies to RAC as it runs on all platforms unless otherwise noted. In addition, the content of this manual supplements administrative and deployment topics for Oracle single-instance databases that appear in other Oracle documentation. Where necessary, this manual refers to platform-specific documentation. This Preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

The Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide is intended for database administrators, network administrators, and system administrators who perform the following tasks:

• Install and configure RAC databases

• Administer and manage RAC databases

• Manage and troubleshoot clusters and networks that use RAC

To use this document, you should be familiar with the administrative procedures described in Oracle Database 2 Day DBA and the Oracle Database Administrator's Guide. You should also read Oracle Database Concepts to become familiar with Oracle database concepts. You should also be familiar with installing and configuring RAC as described in the platform-specific RAC installation guides.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more information, refer to the Oracle resources listed in this section.

• Platform-specific Oracle Clusterware and RAC installation guides

• Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit)

• Oracle Database 10g Administrator's Reference Release 1 (10.2) for UNIX Systems: AIX-Based Systems, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux, and the Solaris Operating System (SPARC)

Database error messages descriptions are available online or by way of a Tahiti documentation search. Oracle Clusterware messages and RAC-specific java tool messages appear in Appendix C and Appendix F of this document respectively.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: