HACMP System Administration I: Planning and Implementation

Course Description:

This course is designed to prepare students to install and configure a highly available cluster using HACMP for AIX 5L.

Learn to design, plan, and configure a highly available cluster of IBM System p nodes running AIX 5.3 using the High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP) 5.4 software.

Get an introduction to the basic concepts, design, and planning considerations and examine the steps necessary to configure the HACMP 5.4 startup, failover, and fallback behaviour policies.

The lectures and labs are based on HACMP V5.4.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

- Define high availability
- Outline the capabilities of HACMP for AIX 5L
- Design and plan a highly available cluster
- Install and configure HACMP for AIX in the following mode of operation: single resource group on a primary node with standby node
- Install and configure HACMP for AIX in the following mode of operation: two resource groups in a mutual takeover configuration
- Configure resource group startup, failover, and fallback policies
- Perform basic system administration tasks for HACMP
- Perform basic customization for HACMP
- Perform basic problem determination and recovery

Who Should Attend

This is an advanced course for experienced AIX system administrators with TCP/IP networking and AIX LVM experience who plan and install an HACMP 5.4 cluster on an IBM System p server running AIX 5L V5.3 or later.