Course Overview
This course is designed to prepare students to install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror.
This course is designed to prepare students to install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror.
What you’ll learn
- 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 modes of operation:
- Single resource group on a primary node with standby node (active/passive)
- Two resource groups in a mutual takeover configuration (active/active)
- 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
This course is the first in the PowerHA 7 curriculum. The following courses can be taken after this course is completed:
- PowerHA 7 Advanced Configurations (AN62G)
Requirements
- Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (AN12G)
Target audiences
- 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 V6.1 or later. The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 7.1 TL2 level system.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 5 Lessons
- 40 Hours
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- Topics5
- 1.1Day 1 Welcome and course introduction Unit 1: Introduction to PowerHA SystemMirror 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
- 1.2Day 2 Unit 3: Configuring applications for PowerHA SystemMirror Unit 4: Configuring a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster Exercise 3: Preparing an application for integration with SystemMirror Exercise 4: Initial cluster configuration
- 1.3Day 3 Unit 5: Cluster validation and testing Unit 6: Basic PowerHA SystemMirror administration Exercise 5: Cluster validation and testing Exercise 6: Extending the configuration
- 1.4Day 4 Unit 7: Events Unit 8: Basic troubleshooting Exercise 7: Events Exercise 8: PowerHA SystemMirror problem determination
- 1.5Day 5 Unit 9: PowerHA SystemMirror installation Exercise 9: Install and maintain PowerHA SystemMirror Open lab
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