This is an Oracle RAC 12c New Features Overview list covering 12.1.0.2 features. It might be useful as a brief overview as to what is new in 12.1.0.2 RAC. For an update on 12.1.0.1, see: http://www.slideshare.net/MarkusMichalewicz/oracle-rac-12cnewfeatureslistoow13

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Storage Management
1.Oracle ASM
2.Oracle ACFS
Quality of Service
1.Quality of Service Management (QoS)
2.Application Continuity
High Availability and Scalability
1.Oracle Clusterware
2.Oracle RAC (One Node)
Consolidation
1.Oracle RAC with Oracle Multitenant
2
Core

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[GRID]> srvctl config network -k 1
Network 1 exists
Subnet IPv4: 10.1.1.0/255.255.255.0/eth0, static
Subnet IPv6:
Ping Targets: <UsefulTargetIP(s)>
Network is enabled
Network is individually enabled on nodes:
Network is individually disabled on nodes:
Guest
DBI
Server
APP
1. Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2. Application Continuity
3. Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4. Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5. Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6. Quality of Service Management
7. Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8. Rapid Home Provisioning

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[GRID]> srvctl config scan -all SCAN name: cupscan.cupgnsdom.localdomain, Network: 1 Subnet IPv4: 10.1.1.0/255.255.255.0/eth0, static Subnet IPv6: SCAN 0 IPv4 VIP: 10.1.1.55 SCAN VIP is enabled. SCAN VIP is individually enabled on nodes: SCAN VIP is individually disabled on nodes: SCAN name: cupscan2, Network: 2 Subnet IPv4: 10.2.2.0/255.255.255.0/, static Subnet IPv6: SCAN 1 IPv4 VIP: 10.2.2.55 SCAN VIP is enabled. SCAN VIP is individually enabled on nodes: SCAN VIP is individually disabled on nodes:
SCAN on Network 1
SCAN on Network 2
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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argentina
germany
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
LISTENER
LISTENER
Valid Node Checking for Registration
SCAN
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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Node1
NodeN
Node
DBC1
DBA1
DB
DBA2
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning
CVU
OraChk

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ADR_base
diag
asm
rdbms
tnslsnr
clients
crs
(others)
Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) support for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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ASM Cluster Pool of Storage
Disk Group B
Disk Group A
ASM Instance
Database Instance
ASM Disk
RAC Cluster
Node4
Node3
Node2
Node1
Node5
ASM
ASM
ASM
ASM
ASM
ASM Instance
DBA
DBA
DBC
DBB
DBB
DBB
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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ASM Cluster Pool of Storage
Disk Group B
Disk Group A
ASM Instance
Database Instance
ASM Disk
RAC Cluster
Node4
Node3
Node2
Node1
Node5
ASM
ASM
ASM
ASM Instance
DBA
DBA
DBC
DBB
DBB
DBB
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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Oracle RAC 12c New Features (12.1.0.2)
ACFS Support for Database and non-DB files – Also on Exadata Database Machines
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ASM Cluster Pool of Storage
Disk Group A Disk Group B
ASM Instance
Database Instance
ASM Disk
Cluster
Node1 Node2 Node3 Node4 Node5 ASM ASM ASM
SI
DB
RAC
DBA
RAC
DBA
RAC
DBA
ACFS ACFS ACFS ACFS ACFS
Apps & DBs use
ACFS for all data

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Oracle ACFS Features Oracle Database Files Non-Oracle Database
Files
ACFS features other
than those listed below
FREE FREE
Snapshots Oracle DB EE required FREE
Encryption Not Available FREE
Security Not Available FREE
Replication Not Available FREE
Auditing Not Available FREE
1. Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2. Application Continuity
3. Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4. Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5. Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6. Quality of Service Management
7. Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8. Rapid Home Provisioning

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1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning
gDBClone sample script based

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ODA: Test & Development Personality
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1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning
Exadata
3rd-Party
ODA
Test/Dev
• Instantly provision Test/Dev environments
• Application VMs and templates
• Space-efficient snapshot storage
• Cost-effective copy-on-write ACFS snapshots – free functionality

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Hub Nodes
Leaf Nodes
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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Hub Nodes
Leaf Nodes
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning
Leaf Nodes
Hub Nodes

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Node3
Node2
Node1
CDB
CDB Instance 1
CDB Instance 2
CDB Instance 3
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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Implement and Control
Define Policies
Evaluate and Report
Analyze and Recommend
Classify and Measure
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning
DEMO
Works with all 11.2 Oracle RAC and RAC One Node deployments
Measure
Phased Deployment
Then Manage
Monitor

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Policy Definition Wizard
Monitor and Manage SLAs
Audit Application Performance
Full EM Cloud Control Integration
1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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1. Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2. Application Continuity
3. Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4. Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5. Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6. Quality of Service Management
7. Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8. Rapid Home Provisioning

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1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning
“Full support for RAC scale-out means Oracle Database In-Memory can be used on our largest Data Warehouse, enabling more near real-time analytics.”
•Sudhi Vijayakumar, Senior Oracle DBA Yahoo Inc.

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1. Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2. Application Continuity
3. Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4. Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5. Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6. Quality of Service Management
7. Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8. Rapid Home Provisioning
Breakthrough:
Dual Format
Database
Full HA &
Integration
with
Industry
Standards

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1.Oracle RAC 12c Overview
2.Application Continuity
3.Oracle Flex ASM and ACFS
4.Oracle Flex Cluster and Agents
5.Full Oracle Multitenant Support
6.Quality of Service Management
7.Full Oracle In-Memory Support
8.Rapid Home Provisioning

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•Database and Middleware streams available
•Videos
–Feature different groups and presenters
–Cover a broad range of topics and products
•FREE OF CHARGE Oracle RAC PM / Dev contributions:
– Oracle Flex Cluster: Optimized Resource Management for the Cloud - Ian Cookson
– Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Bundled Agents – Shankar Iyer
– ACFS Product Overview and Use Cases - Ara Shakian
– The Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Family of Solutions - A User Guide – Markus M.
– Next Generation Oracle Automatic Storage Management - Jim Williams
– Implementing DBaaS with Oracle RAC 12c and Quality of Service Management - Mark Scardina
– Oracle RAC Practical Performance Management and Tuning – Markus Michalewicz
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