Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication can help you install, tailor, and configure the new IBM PowerHA® Version 7.1.3, and understand new and improved features such as migrations, cluster administration, and advanced topics like configuring in a virtualized environment including workload partitions (WPARs).
With this book, you can gain a broad understanding of the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror® architecture. If you plan to install, migrate, or administer a high availability cluster, this book is right for you.
This book can help IBM AIX® professionals who seek a comprehensive and task-oriented guide for developing the knowledge and skills required for PowerHA cluster design, implementation, and daily system administration. It provides a combination of theory and practical experience.
This book is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists) who are responsible for providing high availability solutions and support with the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Standard on IBM POWER® systems.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
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Part 1 Introduction
- Chapter 1. Introduction to PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX
- Chapter 2. High availability components
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Part 2 Planning, installation, and migration
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Chapter 3. Planning
- 3.1 High availability planning
- 3.2 Planning for PowerHA 7.1.3
- 3.3 Planning cluster hardware
- 3.4 Planning cluster software
- 3.5 Operating system considerations
- 3.6 Planning security
- 3.7 Planning cluster networks
- 3.8 Planning storage requirements
- 3.9 Application planning
- 3.10 Planning for resource groups
- 3.11 Detailed cluster design
- 3.12 Developing a cluster test plan
- 3.13 Developing a PowerHA 7.1.3 installation plan
- 3.14 Backing up the cluster configuration
- 3.15 Documenting the cluster
- 3.16 Change and problem management
- 3.17 Planning tools
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Chapter 4. Installation and configuration
- 4.1 Basic steps to implement a PowerHA cluster
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4.2 Configuring PowerHA
- 4.2.1 General considerations for the configuration method
- 4.2.2 Standard configuration path
- 4.2.3 Defining cluster, nodes, and networks
- 4.2.4 Configuring repository and heartbeat method
- 4.2.5 Create shared volume groups
- 4.2.6 Create shared logical volumes
- 4.2.7 Creating a jfslog2 logical volume
- 4.2.8 Creating a new file system
- 4.2.9 Create one more or more application controllers
- 4.2.10 Create service IP labels
- 4.2.11 Create resource group
- 4.2.12 Add resources into resource group
- 4.2.13 Verify and synchronize cluster configuration
- 4.3 Installing PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM Systems Director plug-in
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Chapter 5. Migration
- 5.1 Migration planning
- 5.2 Understanding the PowerHA 7.1 migration process
- 5.3 The clmigcheck program
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5.4 Migration scenarios
- 5.4.1 Legacy migrations to PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.3
- 5.4.2 Rolling migration from PowerHA v6.1 to PowerHA v7.1.3
- 5.4.3 Rolling migration from PowerHA v7.1.x to PowerHA v7.1.3
- 5.4.4 Snapshot migration to PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.3
- 5.4.5 Performing offline migration to PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.3
- 5.4.6 Nondisruptive migration from PowerHA v7.1.2 to PowerHA 7.1.3
- 5.5 Common migration errors
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Chapter 3. Planning
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Part 3 Cluster administration
- Chapter 6. Cluster maintenance
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Chapter 7. Cluster management
- 7.1 Cluster Single Point of Control (C-SPOC)
- 7.2 File collections
- 7.3 User administration
- 7.4 Shared storage management
- 7.5 Time synchronization
- 7.6 Cluster verification and synchronization
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7.7 Monitoring PowerHA
- 7.7.1 Cluster status checking utilities
- 7.7.2 Cluster status and services checking utilities
- 7.7.3 Other cluster monitoring tools
- 7.7.4 Topology information commands
- 7.7.5 Resource group information commands
- 7.7.6 Log files
- 7.7.7 Error notification
- 7.7.8 Application monitoring
- 7.7.9 Measuring application availability
- Chapter 8. Cluster security
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Part 4 Advanced topics, with examples
- Chapter 9. PowerHA and PowerVM
- Chapter 10. Extending resource group capabilities
- Chapter 11. Customizing resources and events
- Chapter 12. Networking considerations
- Chapter 13. WPARs and PowerHA scenario
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Part 5 Appendixes
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Appendix A. Paper planning worksheets
- TCP/IP network planning worksheets
- TCP/IP network interface worksheet
- Fibre Channel disks worksheets
- Shared volume group and file system worksheet
- NFS-exported file system or directory worksheet
- Application worksheet
- Application server worksheet
- Application monitor worksheet (custom)
- Resource group worksheet
- Cluster events worksheet
- Cluster file collections worksheet
- Appendix B. C-SPOC CLI commands
- Appendix C. Cluster Test Tool log
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Appendix A. Paper planning worksheets
- Related publications
- Back cover
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IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Reference Architecture
- Introduction
- Business problem and business value
- Reference architecture use
- Requirements
- InfoSphere BigInsights predefined configuration
- InfoSphere BigInsights HBase predefined configuration
- Deployment considerations
- Customizing the predefined configurations
- Predefined configuration bill of materials
- References
- The team who wrote this paper
- Now you can become a published author, too!
- Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
- Notices
Product information
- Title: IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738440019
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