Duration: 5 Days
This course is designed to prepare you to perform administration on a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX. The course introduces concepts; design and planning considerations; installation and configuration; customization; and maintenance for a PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 cluster.
What You Will Learn
- Explain what high availability is
- Outline the capabilities of PowerHA SystemMirror
- Design and plan a highly available cluster
- Install and configure PowerHA SystemMirror in the following modes of operation:
- Single resource group on a primary node with standby node
- Two resource groups in a mutual takeover configuration Implement the trusted execution feature of AIX 6.1
- Configure resource group startup, fallover, and fallback policies
- Perform system administration tasks for PowerHA
- Perform customization for PowerHA
- Perform problem determination and recovery
Audience
This advanced course is for individuals 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 6.1 or later. The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 7.1 TL2-level system.
Prerequistes
You should be AIX system administrators and have TCP/IP, LVM storage, and disk hardware implementation skills. These skills are addressed in the following courses or can be obtained through equivalent education and experience:
- TCP/IP for AIX Administration (AN210)
Course Outline
Day 1
- Welcome and course introduction
- Unit 1: Introduction to PowerHA SystemMirror
- Unit 2: Planning and configuring network and storage
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
Day 2
- Unit 3: Configuring applications for PowerHA SystemMirror
- Unit 4: Configuring a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
Day 3
- Unit 5: Cluster validation and testing
- Unit 6: PowerHA SystemMirror administration
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
Day 4
- Unit 7: PowerHA SystemMirror event processing
- Unit 8: Basic Troubleshooting
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 8
Day 5
- Unit 9: PowerHA SystemMirror installation
- Exercise 9
- Open lab
Course Labs