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Power Systems for AIX II: AIX

Implementation and
Administration
(Course code AN12)

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Electronic Service Agent
HACMP
POWER2
POWER5
Power Architecture
PowerHA
pSeries
System Storage
Workload Partitions
Manager

AS/400
Everyplace
Notes
POWER3
POWER5+
POWER Hypervisor
PowerPC
RS/6000
Tivoli

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Contents
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Trademarks
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 United
States, or other countries, or both:
AIX
DB2
Express
POWER
POWER4
POWER6
Power Systems
PowerVM
System p
WebSphere

AIX 5L
Electronic Service Agent
HACMP
POWER2
POWER5
Power Architecture
PowerHA
pSeries
System Storage
Workload Partitions
Manager

AS/400
Everyplace
Notes
POWER3
POWER5+
POWER Hypervisor
PowerPC
RS/6000
Tivoli

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 Incorporated
in 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, or
both.
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.

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Requirements
The following information list the hardware, software, and other materials needed to set up
course 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 number
of 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 can
not 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 (this
aids 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 class
Any 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 NIM
server must be accessible to both the instructor and the students. The students will display
the status of their machine objects. The instructor needs to be able to reset and reconfigure
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the machine object if the install hangs or fails. The students will rebuild their systems by
executing a network boot to the NIM server over the network. Details of the NIM server IP
address, subnet mask and default gateway, and access userid and password must be
supplied to the instructor prior to class start.

Example layout assuming a p550 system with 8 Procs and 16Gb (typical
CLP configuration)
Note
Each layout will be different depending on the system type and resources available in the
box.

Mem

Proc

Code Level

Virtual
disks

vNIC
(hdisk0 & (hdisk2 hdisk1) hdisk7) adapters

PVIDs

VIOS

1024

2.1

N/A

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

10

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

11

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

12

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

LPAR

Instr

1024

0.5

6.1 TL2 SP3

6GB

2GB

ent0 (100) ent1 (101) ent2 (102)

Access requirements
The labs have been designed so only an interactive command prompt interface to the AIX
is required. Graphical access such as X, CDE are optional.

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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 lab

The following specialized skills are required to set up the lab:
Power, AIX, VIOS and NIM installation skills.

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Setup instructions
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 p6
server 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 and
host 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 the
environment 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 the
additional packages have been installed.
XYZ packages to check:
- nfs.server
- X11
- ssh
- ssl
- firefox
5. Run host <name of a 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 hdisk0
and hdisk1.
8. On the HMC, examine the profiles of the thre vritual ethernet adapters on each LPAR to
verify that they are each on a different VLAN. In other words, that all the ent0 adapters
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are on one common VLAN, that all the ent1 adapters are on a second common VLAN,
and that all of the ent2 adapters are on a third common VLAN.
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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