PowerHA SystemMirror 7 Planning, Implementation, Customization and Basic Admin

This course is designed to prepare students to install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA SystemMirror.

Objective

• 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) 

 

Day 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

Day 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

Day 3

• Unit 5: Cluster validation and testing
• Unit 6: Basic PowerHA SystemMirror administration
• Exercise 5: Cluster validation and testing
• Exercise 6: Extending the configuration

Day 4

• Unit 7: Events
• Unit 8: Basic troubleshooting
• Exercise 7: Events
• Exercise 8: PowerHA SystemMirror problem determination

Day 5

• Unit 9: PowerHA SystemMirror installation
• Exercise 9: Install and maintain PowerHA SystemMirror
• Open lab

This basic course is for individuals 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 clustesr on an IBM power systems server running AIX 6.1 or later. The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 6.1-level system.

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