PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 Planning and Implementation

Course details

This course is designed to prepare you to install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror. This course should be followed by: AN68GB ptx/CLUSTERS on Numa-Q (AN68GB)

Target Audience:

This basic 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 7.1 and later cluster on an IBM PowerSystems server running AIX 6.1 or later. The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 7.1 TL1 -level system.

Objectives:

• Explain what high availability is
• Outline the capabilities of PowerHA SystemMirror
• Design and plan a highly available PowerHA cluster
• Install and configure PowerHA SystemMirror in the following configuration:
• Single resource group on a primary node and a standby node (active/passive)
• Configure resource group startup, fallover, and fallback policies

Prerequisites:

You should be AIX system administrators and have TCP/IP, LVM storage and Disk hardware implementation skills.

• These skills are addressed in the following course
• TCP/IP for AIX Administrators (AN21GB) or can be obtained through equivalent education and experience.

Content:

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Introduction to PowerHA
• Unit 2: Planning and configuring network and storage for PowerHA SystemMirror
• Exercise 1: Lab setup, cluster planning, and exploring fallover
• Exercise 2: Preparing the AIX environment for PowerHA SystemMirror
• Unit 4: Configuring a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster
• Exercise 3: Preparing an application for integration with SystemMirror
• Exercise 4: Initial cluster configuration
• Exercise 5: Install and maintain PowerHA SystemMirror
• Open lab