RAC Attack - Oracle Cluster Database at Home

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A Project of the Oracle Professional Community

Welcome
RAC Attack is a free curriculum and platform for hands-on learning labs related to Oracle RAC (cluster database). We believe that the best way to learn about RAC is with a lot of hands-on experience. This curriculum has been used by individuals at home and by instructors in classes since 2008.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the wiki for the Oracle11g version of RAC Attack, which has more lenient hardware requirements.

If you are looking for the 'Oracle12c version of RAC Attack, please go to the wiki for that version, you'll be glad you did... :)

Events
RAC Attack is on the road!! Details are on the /Events page.
 * 1) Visit: Check the /Events page to see if there are any upcoming RAC Attack sessions!
 * 2) Volunteer: If you have experience with RAC then volunteer with us to help teach some DBAs who haven't used it yet.
 * 3) Organize: If you're talented at bringing people together, then consider hosting another RAC Attack event!

RoadMap
There are five items on the roadmap:
 * 1) Continue recruitment of new organizers, writers, and maintainers (even short-term) and support all events. Also continue discussing and improving project organization and strategy.
 * 2) VirtualBox platform option. Technical goal for the project roadmap - provide labs for virtualbox with the same high quality as the current VMware labs.
 * 3) EC2 platform option. Additional technical goal for the project roadmap - this may require a little more R&D work since it hasn't been explored as heavily within the professional community.  But some work has already been done in this area by contributors to this project and we can definitely be the first ones to publish a quality lab handbook on EC2!
 * 4) Complete and cleanup the local manual of style. This spells out conventions for all content in this book.  It's mostly up-to-date but just needs to be made a little more user-friendly and loose ends need to be tied up.
 * 5) Wikibook Cleanup: Tagging (reading level, subjects, categories, etc), Review Process (for changes to non-bullpen content), Collections, PDF and printed books. These features are all strongly supported by and tightly integrated with the wikibooks platform.  We want this book to follow wikibooks conventions and be as "wiki-friendly" as possible.

History
The project began in April of 2008 at the IOUG Collaborate conference in Denver, Colorado. IOUG had a classroom full of PCs, and because of a cancellation the room became empty for an afternoon. It didn't seem right to have so many PCs sitting idle at an educational event like Collaborate, so Jeremy and a few others created a set of labs - on the spot - to walk people through making a RAC cluster on OEL with VMware. Using these labs, they offered an impromptu hands-on RAC workshop to Collaborate participants. The workshop was received well and before long there were requests to repeat and enhance it. At one point it was offered in Chicago and Dan coined the name "RAC Attack" - and this name has stuck ever since.

The original contributors were Jeremy Schneider, Dan Norris and Parto Jalili. The handbook was published at http://www.ardentperf.com for several years before its migration to this wikibook. They released all RAC Attack content under the CC BY-SA license in May 2011 when this project was initiated.