Implementing POWER6, Virtualization and AIX 6.1 for POWER5/AIX 5L Administrators

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Description:

Learn about the features that are available in the new POWER6, Hardware Management Console (HMC) v.7 and AIX 6 environments. Through lectures and lab exercises, learn about: Partition Mobility; System and Application Workload Partitions; Host Ethernet Adapter or Integrated Virtual Ethernet; Role Based Access Controls and several other minor enhancements.

Audience:

This intermediate course is intended for AIX technical support individuals (system administrators, engineers, architects) who purchase, manage, and plan an IBM System p POWER6 server running the AIX 5L V5.3 TL6 (or greater) operating system with an HMC at version 7.

Objectives:

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Discuss the POWER6 Hardware Architecture
• Explore the 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 the difference betwteen AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1
• Use IBM Systems Director for System p Administration

Prerequisites:

You must have basic AIX and LPAR system administration experience.

The AIX prerequisite may be met by attending:

• AIX System Administration I: Implementation (AU140) or (Q1314) or
• AIX 5L Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals (AW180) or (Q1845)

or have equivalent AIX skills.

The LPAR prerequisite may be met by attending:

• System p LPAR and Virtualization I: Planning and Configuration (AU730) or (Q1373)
• or have equivalent Logical Partitioning (LPAR) skills.

Topics:

Day 1

• Unit 1 - Overview of POWER6 features
• Exercise 1 - POWER6 features overview
• Unit 2 - Hardware Management Console version 7
• Exercise 2 - Exploring the Hardware Management Console version 7
• Unit 3 - Integrated Virtual Ethernet

Day 2

• Exercise 3 - Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA) configuration
• Unit 4 - Processor virtualization enhancements
• Exercise 4 - Donating and shared processor pools
• Unit 5 - Virtual I/O Server

Day 3

• Exercise 5 - File backed VSCSI
• Unit 6 - Partition mobility
• Exercise 6 - Partition mobility
• Unit 7 - AIX 6.1 features overview
• Exercise 7 - JFS2 Snapshot and 'No Logging' options

Day 4

• Unit 8 - WPAR Manager
• Exercise 8 - Workload partition Management and WPAR Manager
• Unit 9 - IBM Director Console for AIX
• Exercise 9 - IBM Director Console for AIX

Day 5

• Unit 10 - AIX 6.1 advanced security features
• Exercise 10 - Exploring the AIX 6 security features
• Open lab (optional)