Training offering

Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning

Overview

Learn how to perform system administration in a Power Systems environment. Learn about the features of PowerVM Editions and how to configure and manage LPARs running AIX V7 or Linux using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

Public

This course is appropriate for system administrators, technical support individuals, and IBM business partners who implement LPARs on IBM Power Systems.

Prerequisits

This introductory course does not require any logical partitioning experience.

General TCP/IP knowledge is strongly recommended.

Topics

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Introduction to partitioning
• Exercise 1: Introduction to partitioning
• Unit 2: Hardware system overview
• Exercise 2: System hardware components
• Unit 3: Hardware Management Console

Day 2

• Unit 3: Hardware Management Console (continued)
• Exercise 3: Exploring the HMC V8 interface
• Unit 4: Hardware Management Console maintenance
• Exercise 4: HMC and managed system maintenance
• Unit 5: System power management
• Exercise 5: System power management
• Unit 6: Planning and configuring logical partitions

Day 3

• Unit 6: Planning and configuring logical partitions (continued)
• Exercise 6: Configuring logical partitions
• Unit 7: Partition operations
• Exercise 7: Partition operations
• Unit 8: Dynamic LPAR operations
• Exercise 8: Dynamic LPAR operations