Audience

The audience for this advanced course is students 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.

Prerequisites

You should be AIX system administrator and have TCP/IP, LVM storage, and disk hardware implementation skills. In addition, you should be familiar with high availability concepts and knows how to plan and implement a simple active/passive two-node cluster. These skills are addressed in the following courses or can be obtained through equivalent education and experience:

• AN21G: TCP/IP for AIX Administration
• AN67G: PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 Planning and Implementation

Course Agenda

	Verify cluster configuration and status
	Perform basic testing of cluster operations
	Use DARE to make cluster configuration changes without stopping the cluster applications
	Perform routine administration changes across all nodes using C-SPOC
	Perform resource group move operations
	Use the snapshot facility to backup a cluster configuration, to return to a
	previous cluster configuration, or to roll back changes
	Perform basic customization for PowerHA
	Perform basic problem determination and recovery

Course Overview

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Cluster validation and testing
• Unit 2: Basic PowerHA SystemMirror administration
• Exercise 1: Cluster validation and testing
• Exercise 2: Extending the configuration

Day 2

• Unit 3: Events
• Unit 4: Basic troubleshooting
• Exercise 3: Events
• Exercise 4: PowerHA SystemMirror problem determination
• Open lab