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

Explain what high availability is

Outline the 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
• 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

The audience for this 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 5.5 cluster on an IBM Power Systems server running AIX 5L V5.3 or later. The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 6.1-level system.

Day 1

• Unit 1 - Introduction to PowerHA for AIX 5
• 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

Students should be an AIX system administrator and have TCP/ IP, LVM storage and disk hardware implementation skills. These skills may be obtained by attending:

• Power Systems for AIX 2: AIX Implementation and Administration Kurs AN12D1DE or (until 2009: AU14D0DE)
• Power Systems for AIX 3: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination Kurs AN15D1DE or (until 2009: AU16D0DE)
• or through equivalent experience.