IBM Certified Systems Expert - High Availability for AIX Technical Support and Administration

• Maintaining and administering HA implementations
• Evaluating the applicability of PowerHA in the environment
• Determining the requirements for a PowerHA implementation including hardware and software design elements, and configuration modes
• Planning an installation, including elimination of single points of failure
• Installing and configuring PowerHA on a system or cluster of systems
• Performing daily administration, cluster status monitoring, problem determination, log analysis, and recovery

• Plan and install and configure a basic PowerHA cluster.
• Test and verify cluster validity.
• Add/remove cluster components during cluster operation.
• Monitor for and detect cluster failures and perform simple failovers.  
• Create and administer resource groups. Use C-SPOC to manage cluster objects
• Backup, restore and upgrade the cluster and apply cluster fixes. 
• Understand cluster topology configuration and IPAT implementation
• Awareness of cluster security considerations.

• Analyze logs.  Evaluate PowerHA applicability in the environment.
• Plan, install and configure advanced clusters (including application monitors).
• Detect and correct cluster synchronization problems.
• Understand requirements for cross-site, LVM, and XD.
• Configure dependencies within the cluster.
• Understand PowerHA interaction with RSC

This certification requires 2 test(s).

Test(s) required:
Click on the link(s) below to see test details, test objectives, suggested training and sample tests.

1. Test 000-102 - High Availability for AIX - Technical Support and Administration
2. Test 000-223 - System p Administrator