Preface

The Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide describes the Oracle Clusterware architecture and provides an overview of this product. This book also describes administrative and deployment topics for Oracle Clusterware.

Information in this manual applies to Oracle Clusterware as it runs on all platforms unless otherwise noted. In addition, the content of this manual supplements administrative and deployment topics for Oracle single-instance databases that appear in other Oracle documentation. Where necessary, this manual refers to platform-specific documentation. This Preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

The Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide provides a description of Oracle Clusterware architecture as well as administrative and deployment topics for database administrators, network administrators, and system administrators.

This guide is also intended for administrators who administer and manage Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) databases.

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documents

For more information, see the Oracle resources listed in this section.

• Platform-specific Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC installation guides

  Each platform-specific Oracle Database 11g installation media contains a copy of an Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC platform-specific installation and configuration guide in HTML and PDF formats. These installation books contain the preinstallation, installation, and postinstallation information for the various UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms on which Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC operate.

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide

  This is an essential companion book that describes topics including instance management, tuning, backup and recovery, and managing services.

• Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Administrator's Reference for Linux and UNIX-Based Operating Systems

• Oracle Database Error Messages

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
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