This course is designed to prepare students to install and configure a highly available cluster using HACMP for AIX 5L. The audience for this course is students who are experienced AIX system administrators with TCP/IP networking and AIX LVM experience who are responsible for the planning and installation of an HACMP 5.4 cluster on an IBM pSeries server running AIX 5L V5.2 or later.
Students should ideally be qualified as IBM Certified Specialists – pSeries AIX System Support or pSeries AIX System Administration and in addition have TCP/ IP, LVM storage and disk hardware implementation skills. These skills are addressed in the following courses (or can be obtained through equivalent education and experience):
- AU16: AIX 5L System Administration II: Problem Determination
- AU07: AIX 5L TCP/IP Configuring
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Explain what high availability is.
- Outline the capabilities of HACMP for AIX 5L.
- Design and plan a highly available cluster.
- Install and configure HACMP for AIX in the following modes of operation:
- Single resource group on a primary node with standby node
- Two resource groups in a mutual takeover configuration
- Configure resource group startup, fallover, and fallback policies
- Perform basic system administration tasks for HACMP.
- Perform basic customization for HACMP.
- Perform basic problem determination and recovery.