This course is designed for experienced AIX system administrators and support personnel who are responsible for the administration, maintenance, and implementation of PowerHA SystemMirror clusters on IBM Power p systems running AIX. This audience includes:

• Students who want to learn to work with the PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 for AIX
• Students who want to learn about how to implement PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX in complex configurations
• Technical leaders responsible for designing PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX clustering solutions

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: PowerHA review with the advanced topology and CSPOC
• Exercise 1: Lab setup, cluster review, topology, and CSPOC administration

Day 2

• Unit 2: Adding applications
• Exercise 2: Adding additional applications

Day 3

• Unit 3: Advanced administration: Resources and resource groups
• Exercise 3: Application monitors and resource group dependencies

Day 4

• Unit 4: Determining cluster status using the command line interface
• Exercise 4: Determining cluster status using command line Unit 5: Advanced administration: Event configuration Exercise 5: PowerHA for AIX event configuration

Day 5

• Unit 6: Advanced administration: DLPAR and WPAR implementation
• Exercise 6: Implementing DLPAR and WPAR
• Unit 7: Using the PowerHA SystemMirror plug-in for IBM Systems Director (optional)
• Open lab time

You should have experience with installing and performing standard PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX configuration functions, which can be obtained through the following course (or equivalent experience):

• PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX System Administration I: Planning and Implementation 

You should also be familiar with:

• The AIX operating system
• The IBM server hardware that they are using
• The principles of good system management
• TCP/IP communications concepts and tools
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM) concepts and configuration
• Good Korn Shell script programming

• Review fundamental PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX concepts and components
• Create four node clusters with two independent resource groups
• Create and test robust application start and stop scripts
• Create and test custom application monitors
• Create resource group dependencies
• Customize event notifications
• Integrate WPAR and DLPAR with applications under PowerHA control
• Integrate applications into PowerHA using Smart Assists
• Determine the status of the cluster and cluster components using PowerHA/SNMP commands
• Manage the cluster using the IBM Systems Director plug-in