Book excerpt: This book provides practical guidelines to administer the Oracle Oracle Real Application Cluster. It's a field guide to administer RAC in real life situation.This book will improve your efficiency as an Oracle database administrator and enable you to master more daunting, difficult administrative, tuning, and troubleshooting tasks than you ever thought possible. Topics covered include:Oracle RAC Architecture, Cluster Administration, Storage, Instance and Service administration. Adding, deleting Nodes, Managing Backup and Recovery, Performance monitoring and Workload Management and it also has useful Metalink note references.This practical field guide also covers a section on useful Metalink Note References, useful weblinks for easy reference and also the useful information search tips on Metalink.