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PowerHA for AIX I: Implementation, Configuration and Administration

Course_Reference: 
AN41GB
Summary: 

Learn to install and configure a highly available cluster using PowerHA for AIX.

PreRequisites: 

You 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 II: AIX Implementation and Administration (AN12) or(AX12)
• Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination (AN15) or (AX15)
• Equivalent experience would also suffice for this course.

Audience: 

This course is for experienced AIX system administrators with TCP/IP networking and AIX LVM experience who are responsible for the planning and installation of an PowerHA 5.5 cluster on an IBM power systems server running AIX 5L V5.3 or later.

Objectives: 

• 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; and 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

Please refer to the downloadable PDF for an indepth, day-by-day outline of this course.

Description: 

The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 6.1 level system.

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