This course is designed to prepare experienced AIX system administrators with TCP/IP networkring and AIX LVM experience to install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror.
Modality
Classroom or Instructor-led online
Cost
paid
Amount
300
Publish Date
July 20, 2002
Retire Date
December 30, 2027
Duration
40 hours
Agenda
Day 1
Welcome and course introduction
Unit 1: Introduction to PowerHA SystemMirror
Unit 2: Planning and configuring network and storage for PowerHA SystemMirror
Exercise 1: Lab setup, cluster planning, and exploring fallover
Exercise 2: Preparing the AIX environment for PowerHA SystemMirror
Day 2
Unit 3: Configuring applications for PowerHA SystemMirror
Unit 4: Configuring a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster
Exercise 3: Preparing an application for integration with SystemMirror
Exercise 4: Initial cluster configuration
Day 3
Unit 5: Cluster validation and testing
Unit 6: Basic PowerHA SystemMirror administration
Exercise 5: Cluster validation and testing
Exercise 6: Extending the configuration
Day 4
Unit 7: Events
Unit 8: Basic troubleshooting
Exercise 7: Events
Exercise 8: PowerHA SystemMirror problem determination
Day 5
Unit 9: PowerHA SystemMirror installation
Exercise 9: Install and maintain PowerHA SystemMirror
Open lab
Objectives
Explain what high availability is
Outline the capabilities of PowerHA SystemMirror
Design and plan a highly available PowerHA cluster
Install and configure PowerHA SystemMirror in the following modes of operation:
Single resource group on a primary node with standby node (active/passive)
Two resource groups in a mutual takeover configuration (active/active)
Configure resource group startup, fallover, and fallback policies
Perform basic system administration tasks for PowerHA
Perform basic customization for PowerHA
Perform basic problem determination and recovery
This course is the first in the PowerHA 7 curriculum. The following courses can be taken after this course is completed:
The audience for this advanced course is students who are experienced AIX system administrators with TCP/IP networking and AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) experience who are responsible for the planning and installation of a PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 and later cluster on an IBM Power Systems server running AIX V6.1 or later. The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 7.1 TL2 level system.