IBM AN30G - Power Systems for AIX - PowerVM I Implementing Virtualization

Course Outline

• Unit 1: Introduction to partitioning
• Exercise 1: Power Systems documentation overview
• Unit 2: HMC V8 enhancements
• Exercise 2: HMC enhanced interface
• Unit 3: Processor virtualization
• Exercise 3: Processor virtualization configuration
• Unit 4: Virtual Ethernet
• Exercise 4: Virtual Ethernet adapter configuration
• Unit 5: Virtual I/O Server and Shared Ethernet Adapter
• Exercise 5: Virtual I/O Server configuration
• Unit 6: Virtual SCSI devices
• Exercise 6: Client partition configuration
• Unit 7: Virtual network configuration with dual VIOS
• Exercise 7: SEA failover setup
• Unit 8: Virtual SCSI configurations with dual VIOS
• Exercise 8: Dual VIO server configuration with MPIO in the client partition
• Unit 9: Virtual Fibre Channel devices
• Exercise 9: Virtual Fibre Channel adapter configuration
• Unit 10: HMC Service Management
• Exercise 10: Manage service events
• Unit 11: PowerVM advanced systems maintenance
• Exercise 11: PowerVM system maintenance
• Exercise 12: (Optional) File-backed virtual SCSI devices

Objective

• Configure virtual SCSI devices that are backed by physical volumes, logical volumes, and optical media devices
• Configure the Optical Media Repository, load a CD image, and use it to install a new AIX partition
• Configure virtual Fibre channel devices using NPIV technology
• Configure Ethernet link aggregation for load balancing and backup channel in the VIOS
• Configure Shared Ethernet adapter failover and load sharing
• Configure vNIC failover
• Perform Virtual I/O Server maintenance operations