Oracle RAC is no longer the case so it’s the support for it!

If you’re beginning to learn about the Oracle RAC DBA, the first thing you would want to know about the Oracle RAC’s excluded support. Oracle has officially confirmed that it had changed its position on providing support to its RAC (Real Application Clusters) platform virtually run on VMware environments, referring that the support will only be provided under particular circumstances. This was hailed by the EMC’s vice president of VMware Strategic Alliance as below,

“I’d love to claim that it was a “victory for VMware, EMC, and I played a part” – but that wouldn’t be accurate.   What is accurate is:

•          It’s a great move on Oracle’s part.
•          It’s a huge victory for customers.
•          It’s an outcome of customers using their leverage

In the end, the customer is always right.  It’s a cliché, but it’s true. For more details (including the facts in the change), read on…. Ok – so first of all, what’s changed, and where’s the official word? What’s changed? Oracle has moved to a more positive support stance on Oracle 11g RAC on VMware.   There are still many caveats, but they seem much more reasonable to me.   I’ve been sitting on this news until the Metalink article got posted because that’s where it becomes real. So – it got posted. The key is that previously Oracle explicitly excluded support for Oracle RAC – which is no longer the case.”

For a successful business or organization, need to be flexible, scalable, possessing high availability are core growth influencing factors. Consider any global website with millions of visitors, if that website wasn't available when people needed it the most. The Oracle Real-time clustering, also called real application clusters, has been the perfect solution to this kind of systems. The latest release of Oracle 12c had added some new features in Oracle RAC architecture. Let’s have a look at Oracle RAC Architecture. 

Oracle RAC job opportunity

In general, once you land on the job after acquiring skills on Oracle Database 11G or RAC DBA, you can become Oracle Sponge-Bob. Focus on your critical job requirements, and what is leftover you spend on Oracle. Earning a certificate related to Oracle at this point, possibly with help from your company's tuition reimbursement or training benefit plan, has two advantages. One is that learning Oracle is easier if you have already had some hands-on experience or exposure, and the other is that you improve your value to your company, which is always a good thing. Now that this article has helped you formulate a job search plan aimed at helping you eat on a regular basis, we will look at inexpensive ways to learn Oracle in the next article.