HA and Implement Clusters for IBM i

Course details

The purpose of the course is to teach you how to use IBM i clusters, geographic mirroring, and copy services to make an IASP highly available. In addition, you will learn many techniques to manage an IBM i cluster high availability environment.

Target Audience:

This is an intermediate technical course for systems programmers and administrators who are considering high availability options for their IBM i environment.

Objectives:

• Describe the different availibility options using clusters and IASPs
• Create a cluster
• Make an IASP highly available with geographic mirroring and metro mirror
• Use a FlashCopy to backup informaiton
• Practice switchover and failover operations
• Detach and reattach targets of geographic and metro mirror replication
• Explain the management considerations for systems in a cluster

Prerequisites:

You should have completed the two-day IBM IASP course, Implementing IASP on IBM i (AS5AGB).

Content:

• Unit1 - Unit8