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.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
The target audience is system integrators, system administrators, and product support specialists who are responsible for VMR-HA.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
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COURSE CONTENT:
• 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
COURSE 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
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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