Audience

This advanced course is for experienced AIX system administrators with TCP/IP networking and AIX LVM experience who are responsible for the planning and installation of a Power HA 6.1 cluster on an IBM power systems server running AIX 5L V5.3 or later.

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Prerequisites

You should be an AIX system administrator and have TCP/ IP, LVM storage and disk hardware implementation skills. These skills may be obtained by attending or through equivalent experience:

• Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (AN12)
• Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination (AN15)

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Course Agenda

	Explain what high availability is.
	Outline the capabilities of PowerHA for AIX.
	Design and plan a highly available cluster.
	Install and configure PowerHA for AIX in the following modes of operation: Single resource group on a primary node with standby node; and Two resource groups in a mutual takeover configuration
	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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Course Overview

Day 1

• Unit 1 - Introduction to PowerHA for AIX 5L
• Unit 2- Basic Application and resource group considerations
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2

Day 2

• Unit 3- Basic Network considerations
• Unit 4- Shared storage considerations for high availability
• Unit 5 - Initial cluster configuration steps
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5

Day 3

• Unit 6 - Verification and basic monitoring
• Unit 7 - Additional network and application considerations
• Unit 8 - Additional cluster configuration steps
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8

Day 4

• Unit 9 - Basic PowerHA administration
• Unit 10 - Events
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 10

Day 5

• Unit 11 - Problem determination and recovery
• Unit 12 - PowerHA installation
• Exercise 11
• Open Lab