PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1: Customization and Basic Administration

Course details

This course is designed to prepare you to perform administration, customization and maintenance on a PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX cluster. This course provides lectures and hands on labs in a face-to-face classroom setting. The course is also offered in a live virtual classroom environment (ILO - Instructor Led Online) with hands-on labs PowerHA SystemMirror 7 Customization and Basic Administration (ILO) (AX680).

Target Audience:

This advanced course is for 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 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.

Objectives:

• Verify cluster configuration and status
• Perform 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 customization for PowerHA
• Perform problem determination and recovery

Prerequisites:

You should be AIX system administrators and have TCP/IP, LVM storage, and disk hardware implementation skills. In addition, you should be familiar with high availability concepts and know 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:

• Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (AX120)
• Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (AN120)
• PowerHA SystemMirror 7: Planning and Implementation (AX670)
• PowerHA SystemMirror 7: Planning and Implementation (AN670)

Content:

• PowerHA system administration
• Event processing and cluster customization
• Problem determination and recovery
• PowerHA system administration
• Event processing and cluster customization
• Problem determination and recovery
• PowerHA system administration
• Event processing and cluster customization
• Problem determination and recovery