AN61G: PowerHA 7 Planning, Implementing, Customizing and Administration

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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