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Overview
| Course code | AU541AGB | Delivery type | Classroom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 5.0 days | Course type | Public or Private on-site |
| List price |
GBP £2,585 plus VAT
GBP £2,973 incl. VAT |
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This course is designed to prepare you to install and configure a highly available cluster using HACMP for AIX.
Learn to design, plan, and configure a highly available cluster of IBM System p nodes running AIX using the High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP) software.
Get an introduction to the basic concepts, design, and planning considerations and examine the steps necessary to configure the HACMP startup, failover, and fallback behaviour policies.
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Audience
The audience for this course is students who are experienced AIX system administrators with TCP/IP networking and AIX LVM experience who are responsible for the planning and installation of an HACMP 5.4.1 cluster on an IBM System p server running AIX 5L V5.3 or later (the lab exercises are conducted on AIX 6.1).
Pre-requisites
You should complete the following courses or have equivalent experience:
- AIX 5L System Administration II: Problem Determination (AU16GB)
- AIX 5L TCP/IP I: Configuring (AU07GB)
and ideally be skilled as an:
- IBM eServer Certified Specialist - pSeries AIX System Support or
- IBM eServer Certified Specialist - pSeries AIX System Administration
- and have TCP/IP, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) storage, and disk hardware implementation skills.
Objective
- Define high availability
- Outline the capabilities of HACMP for AIX
- Design and plan a highly available cluster
- Install and configure HACMP for AIX in the following modes of operation:
- Single resource group on a primary node with standby node
- Two resource groups in a mutual takeover configuration
- Configure resource group startup, fallover, and fallback policies
- Perform basic system administration tasks for HACMP.
- Perform basic customization for HACMP.
- Perform basic problem determination and recovery.
Key topics
- Introduction to HACMP for AIX
- Networking considerations for high availability
- Shared storage considerations for high availability
- Planning for applications and resource groups
- HACMP installation
- Initial cluster configuration
- Basic HACMP administration
- Events
- Integrating NFS into HACMP
- Problem determination and recovery
Remarks
Remarks: This course is strongly recommended for anyone considering taking the IBM eServer Certified System Expert - pSeries HACMP for AIX examination, http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/03005503.shtml
This course is applicable to HACMP and HACMP/ES.
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