Overview
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This course provides an overview of the PowerVM edition's features on POWER6 processor-based systems. It explains the new features and benefits of virtualization and discusses: the processor virtualization, the Integrated Virtual Ethernet, the virtual I/O server, and the virtual devices such as the virtual Ethernet and virtual SCSI adapters. Basic and advanced configurations of the virtual I/O server and its clients are discussed including various availability options.
Prerequisites
Students must have advanced system administration experience with AIX V5.3 or AIX 6. This prerequisite may be met by attending one of the following courses:
- AIX 6 System Administration I: Implementation (AU14)
- AIX 6 System Administration II: Problem Determination (AU16)
- AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals (AW18)
- or students may have equivalent AIX and LPAR skills.
General TCP/IP knowledge is strongly recommended. This prerequisite may be met by attending:
- AIX Configuring TCP/IP (AU07)
Students are also expected to have logical partition administration skills on POWER processor-based systems, which can be obtained by attending the following course:
- Power Virtualization I: LPAR Planning and Configuration (AN11)
Delegates will learn how to
- Discuss the advantages or value of PowerVM editions features
- Define Micro-Partitioning and Shared Processor LPARs
- Discuss the benefits of simultaneous multi-threading
- Discuss and configure the Integrated virtual Ethernet (IVE)
- Install and configure the Virtual I/O Server
- Configure virtual devices, such as Virtual Ethernet, Shared Ethernet, and Virtual SCSI Disks
- Define file-backed storage pools and file-backed virtual optical devices
- Identify single points of failure in virtualized environments
- Configuring multiple VIO servers for high availability
- Configure the shared Ethernet adapter failover feature.
- Configure MPIO in a VIO server's client partition
- Configure Advanced virtual networking options
- Configure Advanced virtual SCSI options
- Managing the Service events, configure Call home.
- Adding/ exchanging FRU's, FSP failover
Outline
Day 1
- Unit 1 - Overview of Power System p Partitioning
- Exercise 1 - Power System documentation overview.
- Unit 2 - Processors Virtualization
- Exercise 2 - Processors virtualization configuration
Day 2
- Unit 3 - Integrated Virtual Ethernet.
- Exercise 3 - Integrated Virtual Ethernet configuration
- Unit 4 - Virtual Ethernet
- Exercise 4 - Virtual Ethernet Adapter configuration
- Unit 5 - Virtual I/O Server and Virtual devices - Topic 1
- Exercise 5 - Topic 1: Virtual I/O Server and Client partition configuration
Day 3
- Unit 5 - Virtual I/O Server and Virtual devices - Topic 2
- Exercise 5 - Topic 2: Virtual I/O Server and Client Partition configuration
- Unit 6 - Virtual network configuration with Dual VIO servers
- Exercise 6 - Shared Ethernet Adapter failover setup
Day 4
- Unit 7- Virtual SCSI configuration with Dual VIO Servers
- Exercise 7 - Dual VIO Servers configuration with MPIO in the Client Partition
- Unit 8 - HMC Service Management.
- Exercise 8 - Manage Service Events
- Optional exercise - File-backed Virtual disk and Virtual Media Repository configuration
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