AIX – LPAR (EN)

01 Oct

AIX – LPAR (EN)

AIX, Training

A 5-day course aimed at acquiring advanced administration, troubleshooting and security skills to become expert administrators of IBM Power servers running AIX version 5, 6 or 7.

AudiencePrerequisitesLearning ObjectivesTable of content
Senior system administrators, technical support individuals, and IBM business partners who implement LPARs on IBM Power Systems.
Strong knowledge of AIX system coupled with at least 3 years of advanced administration.

You can acquire the prerequisites by taking our other AIX courses:

AIX – Initiation

AIX – Foundations

AIX – Advanced

– Introduction to partitioning
– Hardware system overview
– Hardware Management Console
– Hardware Management Console maintenance
– System power management
– Planning and configuring logical partitions
– Partition operations
– Dynamic LPAR operations
Unit 1: Concepts
Describe important concepts that are associated with managing POWER8 processor-based systems, such as logical partitioning, dynamic partitioning, virtual devices, virtual processors, virtual consoles, virtual local area network (VLAN), and shared processors
Unit 2: Features
Describe the features of the PowerVM editions.
Unit 3: Functions of HMC
Describe the functions provided by the HMC.
Unit 4: HMC configuration
Configure and manage the HMC, including users and permissions, software, start and shutdown, remote access features, network configuration, security features, HMC backup and restore options, and the HMC reload procedure.
Unit 5: Resources allocation
Describe the rules that are associated with allocating resources, including dedicated processors, processing units for Micro-Partitioning, memory, logical host Ethernet adapter, and physical I/O for AIX and Linux partitions.
Unit 6: HMC GUI and commands
Configure and manage LPARs by using the HMC graphical user interface (GUI) and HMC commands.
Unit 7: Physical and AIX location codes
Interpret physical and AIX location codes and relate to the key hardware components.
Unit 8: Power on and power off
Power on and power off the Power Systems server.
Unit 9: Backup and restore operations
Use the HMC to back up and restore partition data.
Unit 10: Dynamic LPAR operations
Perform dynamic LPAR operations (DLPAR).

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