IBM HACMP COURSE CONTENT:

1.Introduction to HACMP for AIX

• High Availability Concepts What does HACMP do?

2.Networking Considerations for High Availability

• Topology Components
• Network Types
• Heartbeat Packets
• IP Address Takeover

3.Shared storage considerations for high availability

• Shared/private Storage
• Reserve/release-based protection
• RSCT-based shared storage protection
• Enhanced Concurrent Volume Groups

4.Planning for applications and resource groups

• Resource Group
• Resource Group Components
• Resource Group Policies

5.HACMP Installation

• Installing HACMP software
• Initial Cluster Configuration
• Topology Configuration
• Defining IP/Non-IP Networks
• Defining Communication Devices
• Synchronizing the cluster
• Starting/Stopping the cluster services

6.Basic HACMP administration

• Topology and Resource Group Management
• Expanding the Cluster
• Shrinking the Cluster
• LVM Change Management
• Dynamic Automatic reconfiguration Event (DARE) Facility

7.Events

• HACMP Basic Event Flow
• Cluster Customization

8.Integrating NFS into HACMP

• Configuring NFS for High Availability
• Cross-mounting NFS file systems

9.Problem Determination and recovery

10.Installing 5.3 HACMP and migrating it to 5.4 HACMP