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 6.1 or later. The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 7.1 TL2 -level system.

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Cluster validation and testing
• Unit 2: Basic PowerHA SystemMirror administration
• Exercise 1: Cluster validation and testing
• Exercise 2: Extending the configuration

Day 2

• Unit 3: Events
• Unit 4: Basic troubleshooting
• Exercise 3: Events
• Exercise 4: PowerHA SystemMirror problem determination
• Open lab

You should be AIX system administrator and have TCP/IP, LVM storage, and disk hardware implementation skills. In addition, you should be familiar with high availability concepts and knows how to plan and implement a simple active/passive two-node cluster. These skills are addressed in the following courses orcan be obtained through equivalent education and experience:

• TCP/IP for AIX Administration 
• PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 Planning and Implementation

• Verify cluster configuration and status
• Perform basic testing of cluster operations
• Use DARE to make cluster configuration changes without stopping the cluster applications
• Perform routine administration changes across all nodes using C-SPOC
• Perform resource group move operations
• Use the snapshot facility to backup a cluster configuration, to return to a
• previous cluster configuration, or to roll back changes
• Perform basic customization for PowerHA
• Perform basic problem determination and recovery