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Learn to install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA for AIX.

What You'll Learn

• What high availability is
• 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

Who Needs to Attend

This advanced course is intended for experienced AIX system administrators with TCP/IP networking and AIX LVM experience who are responsible for planning and installing a PowerHA 5.5 cluster on an IBM power systems server running AIX 5L V5.3 or later.

Prerequisites

You should be an AIX system administrator with TCP/ IP, LVM storage, and disk hardware implementation skills.

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

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

Labs

The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 6.1-level system.