System p LPAR and Virtualization II: Implementing Advanced

Course Overview

This course provides an overview of the Advanced Power Virtualization Feature for the System p5. It explains the new features and benefits of virtualisation. This includes discussing basic and advanced configurations of the Virtual I/O Server and its clients, high availability, Single Points of Failure (SPOF), and APV management tasks.

Audience

The audiences for this training are System Administrators, Technical Support Personnel, and Business Partners responsible for implementing LPARs on an IBM p5 servers.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Discuss the advantages or value of APV
• Define Micro-Partitioning/Shared Processor LPAR's
• Discuss the benefits of simultaneous multi-threading
• Define the Virtual I/O Server
• Configure virtual devices such as Virtual Ethernet, Shared Ethernet, and Virtual Disks
• Identify Single Points of Failure in virtualized environments
• Configure Shared Ethernet Adapter Failover
• Configuring multiple VIO Servers for high availability
• Configure MPIO in a VIO client partition
• Update the system firmware
• Configure advanced virtual networking options
• Configure advanced virtual SCSI options
• Back up and Restore the VIO Server
• Describe Partition Load Manager (PLM)
• Use HMC and AIX tools to evaluate the LPAR's environment

Prerequisites

Students must have advanced system administration experience with AIX 5L. This prerequisite may be met by attending one of the following classes or students may have equivalent AIX and LPAR skills.

• AU14GB/Q14A1GB AIX Version 5L System Administration I: Implementation
• AU16GB/Q16A1GB AIX 5L System Administration II: Problem Determination
• AW18GB AIX 5L Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

General TCP/IP knowledge is strongly recommended. This prerequisite may be met by attending the AU07GB AIX 5L Configuring TCP/IP course.

Students are also expected to have logical partition administration skills on POWER5 processor-based systems which can be obtained by attending one of the following courses:

• AU73GB System p (LPAR) and Virtualization I: Planning and Configuration.
• AU74GB eServer p5 Logical Partitioning (LPAR) for pSeries POWER4 Administrators

Course Outline

• Introduction to System p5 APV features and to high availability in the virtualized environment
• Basic VIO Server and client configurations
• Virtual Ethernet devices - network access redundancies - best practices
• The VSCSI devices - disk access redundancies - best practices
• Implementing PLM
• APV systems maintenance
• HACMP and the Power5 APV features

System p LPAR and Virtualization II: Implementing Advanced / AU781AGB (AU781AGBGB)