This course is designed to introduce the students to the features available with the new POWER6, Hardware Management Console (HMC) v7, and AIX 6 environment. This is accomplished by discussing the details associated with the POWER6 hardware and the AIX version 6 operating system. The hands-on labs provide additional exposure to the new environment.
Students must have basic AIX and LPAR system administration experience.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Discuss the POWER6 hardware architecture
- Explore the new HMC version 7 interface
- Discuss and configure the new approaches to virtualization such as workload partitions and live application mobility
- Discuss and configure virtualization enhancements such as dedicated shared processor and multiple shared pools (if supported)
- Identify new security features
- Discuss continuous availability options such as storage keys and concurrent AIX kernel update
- Discuss some of the differences between AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1
- Use IBM Systems Director for System p administration
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