About Course
This course is designed to prepare students to install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror 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 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 PowerHA 7 Advanced Configurations AN62G You should be AIX system administrator 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 Power Systems for AIX II AIX Implementation and Administration AN12G IBM Power Systems High Availability PowerHA
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Who Can Benefit
- 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