Introduction to Grid Infrastructure
What is a Cluster?
What is a Flex Cluster?
Clusterware Characteristics
Oracle Clusterware
Hardware and Software Concepts (High level)
Shared Storage Overview

Oracle Clusterware Architecture
Cluster Storage Requirements
Clusterware Initialization and OHASD
Clusterware Process Architecture
Location Independent Names, Addresses and Name Resolution (GNS, SCAN, VIP..)
Shared GNS Background and Architecture
Configuring shared GNS
Migrating to shared GNS
Moving GNS to Another Cluster

Flex Cluster Architecture
Flex Cluster Architecture
Configuring Flex Cluster
Flex Clusters and Node Failure

Grid Infrastructure Pre-Installation Tasks
Shared Storage for Oracle Clusterware
Checking System Requirements
Single Client Access Name for the Cluster
Redundant Interconnect Usage
Kernel Requirements
Groups and Users
Shell Settings
Oracle Validated Configuration

Installing Grid Infrastructure
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure
Installing Flex Cluster
Verifying the Oracle Clusterware Installation

Managing Cluster Nodes
Adding Oracle Clusterware Homes
Prerequisites for Running addNode.sh
Adding a Node with addNode.sh
Configuring the node role
Removing a Node from the Cluster

Traditional Clusterware Management
Oracle Clusterware startup and shutdown
Administering the Voting Disk file
Administering the Oracle Cluster Registry Disk file
Network Administration
What-If Command Evaluation
Clusterware Admin Tools Review

Policy-Based Cluster Management
Policy-Based Cluster Management Overview
Server Categorization
Policy Set

Patching Grid Infrastructure
Out-of-Place Oracle Clusterware Upgrade
Types of Patches
Obtaining Oracle Clusterware Patches
Rolling Patches
Installing a Rolling Patchset with OUI
OPatch Overview
Installing a Rolling Patch with OPatch
OPatch Automation

Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware
Diagnostic Framework Support for CRS
Cluster Health Monitor Enhancements Overview
Component level checks – cluvfy with -comp
Resource Debugging – Java Tools and Dynamic Debugging
Troubleshooting Node Evictions
Log files and Diagnostic Collection
The oclumon Utility

Making Applications Highly Available
Overview of Using Oracle Clusterware to Enable HA
Oracle Clusterware HA Components
Resource Management Options
Server Pools
Overall flow diagram of HA lifecycle (crs_profile, crs_register, crs_start….)
Clusterware Resource Modeling
Creating an Application VIP
ONS and FAN overviews

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service Overview
Introducing Exadata Cloud Service
Service Configuration Options & Service Connection Options
Service Architecture & Availability
Management Responsibilities
Storage Configuration & Management Details
Simple Web-Based Provisioning & Management
REST APIs
Migrating to Exadata Cloud Service