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The information contained in this document has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is distributed on an as is basis withoutany warranty either express or implied. The use of this information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a customerresponsibility and depends on the customers ability to evaluate and integrate them into the customers operational environment. Whileeach item may have been reviewed by IBM for accuracy in a specific situation, there is no guarantee that the same or similar results willresult elsewhere. Customers attempting to adapt these techniques to their own environments do so at their own risk.

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United States and other countries.Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

in the United States, other countries, or both.Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries, orboth.

Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, othercountries, or both.

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and othercountries.

Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

AIX AIX 5L AS/400

DB2 Electronic Service Agent Everyplace

Express HACMP Notes

POWER POWER2 POWER3

POWER4 POWER5 POWER5+

POWER6 Power Architecture POWER Hypervisor

Power Systems PowerHA PowerPC

PowerVM pSeries RS/6000

System p System Storage Tivoli WebSphere Workload Partitions

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The reader should recognize that the following terms, which appear in the content of this

training document, are official trademarks of IBM or other companies:

IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

The following are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the UnitedStates, or other countries, or both:

PS/2 is a trademark or registered trademark of Lenovo in the United States, other

countries, or both.

PostScript is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporatedin the United States, and/or other countries.

Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the

United States and other countries.

Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

in the United States, other countries, or both.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries, orboth.

Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other

countries, or both.

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other

countries.

Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

AIX AIX 5L AS/400

DB2 Electronic Service Agent Everyplace

Express HACMP Notes

POWER POWER2 POWER3

POWER4 POWER5 POWER5+

POWER6 Power Architecture POWER Hypervisor

Power Systems PowerHA PowerPC

PowerVM pSeries RS/6000 System p System Storage Tivoli

WebSphere Workload PartitionsManager


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Requirements

The following information list the hardware, software, and other materials needed to set upcourse AN12.

Overview

Each students requires his/her own logical partition. Since some exercises require LPAR to

be used in pairs, while other exercises use the LPARs in groups of three, the total numberof LPARs needed in a given Power server is not obvious. Below is a table for guidance:

Number of students............................Number of LPARs

1 to 3 students ........................................... 4 LPARs

4 to 6 students ........................................... 6 LPARs

7 to 9 students ..........................................10 LPARs

10 to 12 students ..................................... 12 LPARs

The LPAR can be housed in a Power5 or Power6 server. The above LPAR groupings cannot be spread between servers. If a server can only support 6 LPARs, then if will only

support the 4-6 student range and another server is needed for the additional students.Minimum requirements per LPAR:

1. 0.5 processing units and 1GB memory.

2. AIX level 6.1 TL2 SP3

3. 2 virtual disks (hdisk0 and 1). Size 6GB (place these under vscsi0)

4. 6 virtual disks (hdisk2 through to 7). Size 2GB (place these under vscsi1)

5. 3 virtual Ethernet adapters each in a different VLAN (PVID).

Important

ent0 must be used for the class network

To maximize H/W resource each LPAR should be virtual. For example, the network and

storage is provided by a VIOS server.

Note

In theory, it does not matter whether the LPAR has real or virtual devices.


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The VIOS level should be 2.1 (Versions 1.4 / 1.5 are also perfectly acceptable).Students will require access to a HMC running the latest version (7). Ideally, 12 additional

HMC admin accounts should be created so students dont all login as the hscroot user (thisaids performance).

There must be a NIM server defined for the class which will have defined:

a bosinst.data file,

an lpp_source (for AIX 6.1 TL02 SP03)

a SPOT defined (for AIX 6.1 TL02 SP03)

client machine objects with object names which match the hostnames of the hostnames

of the systems on the student LPARs.

Important

On the NIM server before the class starts, each of the LPARs must be set for a nim

BOS operation using NIM resources: SPOT, bosinst.data and LPP Source.

Example:

nim -o allocate -a group=ResGRP $MAC_GRP

nim -o bos_inst -a source=rte -a installp_flags=-agX -a

boot_client=no $MAC_GRP

Where:

ResGRP = the spot, bosinst.data and LPP_source, bound as a group

$MAC_GRP = the group of LPARs assigned to the classAny default bosinst.data file will be OK, but the following must be set:

INSTALL_METHOD = overwrite

PROMPT = yes

target_disk_data:

PVID =

PHYSICAL_LOCATION =

CONNECTION =LOCATION =

SIZE_MB =

HDISKNAME = hdisk1

During the class, the instructor does not expect to configure the NIM server. But the NIMserver must be accessible to both the instructor and the students. The students will display

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Hardware requirements

Power5 or Power6 server

- One physical NIC

- Storage requirements (assuming 12 students on a single server):

Per LPAR: 24GB space. Total LPAR space: (24 x 13 LPARs) = 312GB.

VIOS rootvg disk (approx. 73GB)

Total storage required (approx.) 400GB.

NIM server

- Connected to class network. Enough space to store: SPOT + bosinst.data + LPP

Source. (Max. 1Gb)

Minimum 1 HMC

Student Workstation

- Any PC running Windows or Linux

Software requirements

LPAR / NIM server

- AIX 6.1 TL02 SP03

HMC

- Latest version.

Special materials requirements

File: AN12file.tar.

If you are using a supplied AN12 course mksysb image, the tar package should already be

installed. Otherwise, these lab files need to extracted and installed.

Skills required to set up the labThe following specialized skills are required to set up the lab:

Power, AIX, VIOS and NIM installation skills.


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Hardware setup instructions

Configure the layout of the server as indicated in the overview section. Each student

must have access to their own LPAR (no sharing!). If you're not using an 8 way p6server with 16GB of memory then some calculation will need to be performed using the

metrics supplied above.

Ensure the LPAR profile names are set to = default

Install the mksysb (supplied) into each LPAR

Configuration information

The following describes the configurations of the student and/or lab set systems.

__ 1. Ensure root passwd is set to ibmaix. This will be done in the supplied mksysb.

__ 1. Make sure rootvg resides on hdisk0. Leave the hdisk1 volume empty.

__ 2. Configure the en0 network interface on each LPAR according to the addressing andhost naming scheme of the facility that is provisioning the course lab environment.

__ 3. Ensure each host can communicate and that the /etc/hosts file or DNS contains all

names + IP addresses needed for the class.

The /etc/host file will need to be populated in the mksysb image supplied.

__ 4. Configure a NIM server to support the labs:

__ a. See notes in the overview section.

Software (LPAR) setup instructions

Using the supplied mksysb:

1. If using a class mksysb image, update the either or both of the /etc/hosts file and

/etc/resolv.conf file to match the IP addresses and host names actually used in theenvironment for the class.

Building the LPAR from scratch:

1. Install AIX (from CD/DVD) @ version TL02 SP3 + Graphics Bundle + Server Bundle +Mozilla Firefox + SSH (version 4.7) + SSL (version 0.9.8).

2. Extract the AN12 tar file as supplied. Check to make sure the file /usr/AN12/suidAN12

has the SUID flag set. If not type: # chmod 4755 /usr/AN12/suidAN12

3. Create a user, named user01 password user01.


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4. Set EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi in the /etc/environment file.

5. Ensure /tmp has 100MB of free space.

6. Follow steps in the Configuration Information section above.

VIOS setup instructions

Install VIOS, ideally version 2.1

1. Create a virtual storage server adapter for each client LPAR

2. Create a volume group for the LPAR storage

3. In the volume group, create 8 logical volumes for each partition (see overview section)

4. Map the logical volumes as appropriate to each virtual storage adapter

5. Map the storage server adapter to the client adapter in each LPAR

6. Create an SEA bridge so client LPARs have external network connectively using their

ent0 adapters

Verification procedures

Check that each LPAR is running and:

1. Run oslevel and check that 6.1.0.0-02-03 is returned.

2. Run ls -R /usr/AN12 to verify that the lab files are installed.

3. Run lsuser user01 to verify the user is defined

4. Run lslpp -L | grep XYZ (replace XYZ with the package name) to ensure theadditional packages have been installed.

XYZ packages to check:

- nfs.server

- X11

- ssh

- ssl

- firefox5. Run host on each the hostnames of the other LPARs.

6. Run df -M to verify that /tmp has 100MB of free space

7. Run bootinfo -s hdisk# on each hdisk, to be sure that the two largest disks are hdisk0and hdisk1.

8. On the HMC, examine the profiles of the thre vritual ethernet adapters on each LPAR to

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9. On the NIM server run lsnim -l on each machine partition to be sure they are

configured for BOS installation.


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