AN610 IBM PowerHA 7 Planning, Implementing, Customizing and Administration

5 Days

30 CPD hours

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.

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

This course is designed to prepare you to perform administration on a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX. It introduces concepts; design and planning considerations; installation and configuration; customization; and maintenance.

Day 1

• Introduction to PowerHA SystemMirror
• Planning and configuring network and storage

Day 2

• Configuring applications for PowerHA SystemMirror
• Configuring a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster

Day 3

• Cluster validation and testing
• PowerHA SystemMirror administration

Day 4

• PowerHA SystemMirror event processing
• Basic Troubleshooting

Day 5

• PowerHA SystemMirror installation