S1000-008 Exam Information and Guideline
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.5 AIX Administrator Specialty
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Number of Questions: Approximately 60-65 questions.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Passing Score: Typically around 65-70%.
Format: Multiple-choice and performance-based questions.
- Planning
- Identify the different ways to design and deploy a PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX, HA or DR solution.
- Create designs that eliminate single points of failure through architectural planning.
- Plan for application availability by identifying required resources and resource groups.
- Configuration and Deployment
- Demonstrate understanding of the configuration requirements.
- Explain the methods used to deploy the solution.
- Cluster Management, Administration and Upgrade
- Perform management on the cluster.
- Perform administrative tasks on the cluster.
- Perform monitoring tasks on the cluster.
- Customization and Troubleshooting
- Describe the options available to customize the cluster beyond the basic configuration.
- Demonstrate the skills necessary to troubleshoot a PowerHA cluster cluster problem.
- Planning and Design
- Understand the architecture and components of IBM PowerHA SystemMirror.
- Identify high-availability requirements for business continuity.
- Plan for resource groups, networks, and storage in a PowerHA environment.
- Design a PowerHA cluster configuration based on business needs.
- Understand the differences between Standard and Enterprise editions of PowerHA.
- Installation and Configuration
- Install and configure IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.5.
- Configure cluster nodes, networks, and storage.
- Set up resource groups and dependencies.
- Configure IP address takeover (IPAT) and service IP labels.
- Implement and manage tie-breaking mechanisms
- tiebreaker disks
- majority node set
- Configure and manage heartbeat networks.
- Operations and Management
- Start, stop, and manage PowerHA clusters.
- Monitor cluster status and resource groups.
- Perform administrative tasks using SMIT (System Management Interface Tool) and command-line tools.
- Manage cluster events and notifications.
- Perform cluster synchronization and verification.
- Understand and manage cluster logs and diagnostics.
- Troubleshooting and Problem Determination
- Diagnose and resolve common PowerHA issues.
- Analyze cluster logs and error messages.
- Troubleshoot network, storage, and resource group-related problems.
- Use diagnostic tools and utilities to identify and resolve issues.
- Recover from cluster failures and resource group failures.
- Maintenance and Updates
- Apply updates and patches to PowerHA SystemMirror.
- Perform version upgrades and migrations.
- Plan and execute maintenance activities without disrupting cluster operations.
- Backup and restore PowerHA configurations.
- Understand the impact of AIX updates on PowerHA functionality.
- SMIT (System Management Interface Tool): For managing PowerHA configurations.
- clmgr command: For cluster management from the command line.
- Resource groups: Understanding their role in failover and failback.
- Heartbeat networks: Ensuring communication between cluster nodes.
- Tiebreaker mechanisms: Preventing split-brain scenarios.
- IP address takeover (IPAT): Managing IP failover during node failures.
- PowerHA SystemMirror Basics
- High Availability (HA)
- Cluster
- Node: An individual server or system within a PowerHA cluster.
- Resource Group
- Failover
- Fallback
- PowerHA Components
- Cluster Manager
- Communication Interfaces
- heartbeat
- IP aliases
- Tiebreaker
- Shared Storage
- Heartbeat
- Configuration and Management
- Cluster Topology
- IP Aliases
- Resource Monitoring
- Event Scripts
- Cluster Single Point of Control (C-SPOC)
- Disaster Recovery
- Geographic Mirroring
- Synchronization
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
- Troubleshooting and Maintenance
- Cluster Logs
- clstrmgr logs
- Split-Brain Scenario
- Quorum
- Node States
- Security and Compliance
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Auditing
- Secure Communication
- Performance Optimization
- Load Balancing
- Resource Allocation
- Network Latency
- Key Commands and Tools
- clmgr
- smitty
- cltopinfo
- cllsvg
- clRGinfo