Preface

Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit) explains how to install and configure Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Before you use this guide, you must first complete successfully an installation of Oracle Clusterware, as described in Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for your platform.

Audience

Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit) provides database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle RAC.

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) documentation set.

Oracle Real Application Clusters Documentation

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Installation Guides

Oracle Diagnostics Pack Installation Guide
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for IBM AIX
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for HP-UX
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for Linux
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit)
Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for Solaris Operating System

Operating System-Specific Administrative Guides

Oracle Database Administrator's Reference for Linux and UNIX-Based Operating Systems
Oracle Database Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Real Application Clusters Management

Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide
Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide
Oracle Database Express Edition 2 Day DBA
Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide
Getting Started with the Oracle Diagnostics Pack

Generic Documentation

Oracle Database Sample Schemas describes the sample schemas provided in a basic installation of Oracle Database. Many of the examples in the Oracle Database Documentation Library use these schemas.
Oracle Database New Features Guide
Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide
Oracle Database Concepts
Oracle Database Reference

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