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Instructor Preparation
PowerHA SystemMirror 7 Planning,
Implementation, Customization and
Basic Administration
Course code AN61G   ERC 5.1
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Contents
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About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Preparing to teach this course. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Instructor qualifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Instructor background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Other resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
General recommendations for all IBM courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Course overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Exercises overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Exercises configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Course updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Unit 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Unit 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Course outline and notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Helpful hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

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Trademarks
The reader should recognize that the following terms, which appear in the content of this training
document, are official trademarks of IBM or other companies:
IBM, the IBM logo, and ibm.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business
Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide.
The following are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation, registered in many
jurisdictions worldwide:
AIX 5L™ AIX 6™ AIX®
Approach® DB2® Domino®
DS6000™ DS8000® FileNet®
GPFS™ HACMP™ HyperSwap®
Lotus® MQSeries® Notes®
Power Systems™ Power® PowerHA®
PowerVM® Redbooks® System Storage®
SystemMirror® Tivoli® WebSphere®
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About this book

This book prepares instructors to teach the PowerHA SystemMirror 7 Planning, Implementation,
Customization and Basic Administration course and is intended for new and experienced
instructors. The book provides the following information:
• Instructor qualifications
• Suggested preparation
• Materials for course
• Course overview
• Course updates
• Course outline and notes

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Preparing to teach this course

This section explains to the instructor’s management and the prospective instructor the background
skills that are required to effectively teach both the course and the prerequisite courses. It also lists
instructional documents and any other material that should be studied before teaching the course.
The prospective instructor must already possess all of the delivery skills that are required to be an
instructor.

Instructor qualifications
Instructors must possess all of the teaching skills that are required of a successful instructor. This
section describes the additional course-specific knowledge that instructors should have.

Instructor background
This section describes the technical and tool-specific knowledge that is necessary for instructors to
deliver the course successfully. If the instructor cannot address these topics and draw on industry
experience in doing so, the course might not be successful.
• Install AIX.
• Install PowerHA.
• Configure PowerHA and create a cluster.
• Manage a PowerHA cluster: start/stop cluster services, online/offline and move resource
groups, use CSPOC to manage LVM in a PowerHA cluster.
• Understand how CAA (Cluster Aware AIX) is used in a PowerHA cluster.
• Understand how RSCT (cthags) is used in a PowerHA cluster.
• Understand the installation, use of the new PowerHA GUI interface.
The instructor should successfully complete the following prerequisite courses:
• AN12G: AIX 5L System Administration (for AIX 5L and networking information)
• AN13G: AIX 5L System Administration II: Problem Determination (for LVM information)
• AN61G (this course) PowerHA SystemMirror 7 Planning, Implementation, Customization and
Basic Admin

Other resources
• See the resources listed at the start of each unit in the Course Guide.

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General recommendations for all IBM courses
Some of these resources might not be available until later in the course development process.
Review what is available and check back later for more resources:
• Attend any instructor training that is available for this course.
• Check for an SPVC (self-paced virtual class) of the course and, if available, attend it.
• Review the following course information:
▪ Locate the course description in the online course catalog at www.ibm.com/training.
▪ Read the course overview and course outline to understand the overall course content.
▪ Review the audience for which the course is intended.
Know your audience so that you can assist the students and tailor the course for anyone who does
not meet the audience background but is still participating in the course.
▪ Review the student prerequisites for this course.
You must know all of the information in the prerequisite courses. Depending on the audience
background and prerequisites, it might be necessary to review previous materials.
▪ Review the skills taught in this course.
Be sure that you know and understand all of the target skills for the course before you attempt
delivery.
• Study the course materials.
Request the course materials and request access to the course labs at least two weeks before you
are available to study them. Ensure that you understand how to run the lab exercises and how to
complete all lab setup steps that are required.
• Review all of the training paths that refer to this course.
You should know what comes before and after this course so that you can verify that your audience
meets the prerequisites and sell your audience on the follow-on courses.

Course overview
This course is designed to prepare students to install and configure a highly available cluster using
PowerHA SystemMirror.

Strategy
Teaching strategy
Each classroom session uses a combination of facilitated lecture, discussions, group exercises,
and demonstrations to convey the material.

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Introduce the material
Inform the students of the objectives of the unit and topic. Give them a brief scenario that helps
them understand how the presented material helps them to do their jobs.

Facilitate the learning experience

Involve the students in the learning process. Ask them questions and present classroom scenarios
in which students use the available resources to solve situations that involve process, procedure, or
content on the job.

Review the material

Review objectives at the conclusion of each unit to ensure that the students have a thorough
understanding of the material.
Group exercises and labs are used to reinforce knowledge and skills that the students learned in
the previous classroom topics. The instructor serves as a mentor to check results, answer
questions, and provide constructive feedback and evaluation.

Course evaluation
Evaluation measures the quality, effectiveness, and impact of the course. It enables students to
answer the question, “Does the course meet its requirements and objectives?”
For all classes, instructors provide an end-of-course questionnaire that students complete as
feedback on course quality.

Exercises overview
The exercises should be done in order after the lecture to which they apply.
You should try to verify as early as possible that the elab IDs are working and that you can reach
the designated machines.
Part 1 of the Lab setup, cluster planning, and exploring fallover exercise provides space for
students to write down the lab information.
Exercises designed to illustrate the use of the PowerHA 7.2.1 GUI have been added.

Exercises configuration
Each student has a separate system and students work independently.

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Materials
The following materials are available for this course:
• Course Guide
• Course Exercises Guide
• Instructor Preparation Guide
• Lab environment
• Slide show

Course updates
This book covers AN61G, AN67G and AN68G. All three courses use the same source files.
• AN61G is a five day course and includes Units 1 through 9.
• AN67G is a three day course. It is a subset of AN61G and includes 5 units:
▪ Units 1 through 4
▪ Unit 9 (numbered as Unit 5 in AN67G)
• AN68 is a two day course. It is a subset of AN61G and includes 4 units:
▪ Units 5 through 8 (numbered as Units 1 through 4 in AN68G)
The ERC 5.0 update brings the course up to PowerHA 7.2.1 GA. The Lab Setup Guide was
expanded to include more details on how to set up for this course outside of the IBM Remote Lab
Platform environment.
Changes were made to the content:
• All units/exercises were updated with 7.2.1 screen shots and smit menus as needed.
• Changes were made to cover the unicast heartbeat capability and the dynamic hostname
change capability.
• Most changes involved updating version, screen captures, and so forth related to PowerHA
7.2.1 and AIX 7.2.
The ERC 5.1 update changed the lab environment from an HMC 8.4.0 pool of servers to an HMC
8.6.0 pool of servers. This is transparent to the students and instructor. Minor changes were made
to the lab files to fix problems that were in the ERC 5.0 version. The changes included:
General: The qha utility was fixed (it didn’t work with PowerHA 7.2), and references to Citrix and
CLP were replaced with Skytap and general references to the IBM Lab
Exercise 1: Fixed the navigation of the Knowledge Center pages (for now anyway)
Exercise 3: Placed proper text in Step 29, cleaned up VNC login instructions
Exercise 4: Added final step in lab to stop uiserver subsystem, since it conflicts with the apache
server in Exercise 5

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42.
Exercise 6: Minor changes to description of qha, and major changes to private network section,
including introducing lscluster -g.
Exercise 7: Minor rework of hacmp.out processing
Exercise 8: Corrected the CAA syslog entry, corrected two references to hacmp.term (/usr, not /var)
Exercise 9: Changed 7.1.3 references to 7.2.1, removed the Optional Exercise (it serves no
purpose), changed Step 16 to use shutdown -Fr, not reboot.
No changes were made to the lecture files.

Unit 6
• ERC 5.0 added PowerHA GUI introduction section.

Unit 8
• ERC 5.0 added section on using PowerHA GUI to review logs.

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Course outline and notes

This sections on the following pages provide information and accompanying instructor notes for the
units and exercises in this course.

Helpful hints

Troubleshooting

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