Overview

This 2 day course provides students with the skills needed to implement and manager the IBM VM Recovery Manager – HA (VMR-HA) product.  Topics include introduction to High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR), understanding the requirements and planning for implementing VMR-HA, installing and configuring VMR-HA, and testing the capabilities of VMR-HA at the VM and application level. Hands-on exercises reinforce the lecture material, allowing students to install, configure, test, and maintain VMR-HA environments.

Audience

The target audience is system integrators, system administrators, and product support specialists who are responsible for VMR-HA. 

Prerequisites

Objective

• Describe industry terminology and concepts for High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recover (DR)
• Plan for the installation of VM Recovery Manager 1.5
• Install VM Recovery Manager – HA (VMR-HA) components
  •    - Describe the installation of VIOS efix
  •    - Install VM Recovery Manager HA KSYS and GUI software
  •    - Install the VM agent on managed LPARs
• Configure VMR-HA
  •    - Declare the infrastructure environment : HMC, Hosts, VIOS
  •    - Create the host groups : the hosts you want to protect against failures
  •    - Select the managed VM, configure and enable them for HA
• Describe how VMR-HA functions at the VM and application levels
• Manage and monitor KSYS using the provided tools
• Install and check VMR-HA agent status
• Register an application with the VMR-HA agent
• Recover standard and critical applications

Course Outline

• Unit 1: (1:30) High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) concepts
• Unit 2: (1:00) VM Recovery Manager requirements
• Unit 3: (1:00) VM Recovery Manager HA installation
• Unit 4: (2:00) VM Recovery Manager HA configuration
• Exercise 4: (0:30) Configuring VMR-HA using the GUI
• Unit 5: (2:00) VMR-HA at the VM level
• Exercise 5: (1:00) VMR-HA managing a VM crash
• Unit 6: (2:00) VMR-HA at the application level
• Exercise 6: (1:30) VMR-HA managing an application crash