Course description: PowerHA 7 Planning, Implementing, Customizing and Administration (ILO)

Note: This is an Instructor Led Offering (ILO). It is an Internet based class with a live instructor, so please do not make travel arrangements. After you receive confirmation that you are enrolled, you will be sent further instructions on how to access audio, video, and remote labs.

This course teaches you to design, plan, and configure a highly available cluster of Power Systems p nodes running Advanced Interactive Executive (AIX 6.1) using the PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 software. The course introduces the basic concepts, design, and planning considerations as well as covering the steps necessary to configure the PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 startup, fallover, and fallback behavior policies.

This course provides lectures and hands on labs in a live virtual classroom environment. The course is also offered in a face-to-face classroom setting with hands-on labs PowerHA SystemMirror 7 Planning, Implementing, Customizing, Administrating (AN610).

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Training Paths that reference this course are:

• PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX

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IBM Education Advantage Program Eligibility:

• Yes - Education Pack - online account

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This basic 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 clustesr on an IBM power systems server running AIX 6.1 or later. The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 7.1 TL1-level system.

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You should be:

• AIX system administrators and have TCP/IP, LVM storage, and disk hardware implementation skills

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• 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 basic system administration tasks for PowerHA
• Perform basic customization for PowerHA
• Perform basic problem determination and recovery

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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

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