课程大纲

课程介绍

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

The lab exercises are conducted on an AIX 6.1 level system

授课对象

    This course is intended 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 power systems server running AIX 6L V5.3 or later

预备技能

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

Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination

or through equivalent experience.

课程目标

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.

主要课题

Unit 1 - Introduction to PowerHA for AIX 6L

Unit 2- Basic Application and resource group considerations

Exercise 1

Exercise 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

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

Unit 9 - Basic PowerHA administration

Unit 10 - Events

Exercise 9

Exercise 10

Unit 11 - Problem determination and recovery

Unit 12 - PowerHA installation

Exercise 11

Open Lab