This course is designed to prepare students to perform basic administration and maintenance on a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster.

• 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

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.

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 or can be obtained through equivalent education and experience:

• TCP/IP for AIX Administration (AN210)
• PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 Planning and Implementation (AN670)

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

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course. Go to the EViTA site to start this process: http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

Once you enroll in a GTP class, you will receive a confirmation letter that should show:

• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price available to IBMers. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.