Installing PowerHA SystemMirror

You must understand concepts and planning information about PowerHA SystemMirror, before you install PowerHA SystemMirror.

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Overview of the installation process
After completing the planning steps, you are ready to install the PowerHA SystemMirror software.
Creating shared LVM components
Setting up shared LVM components for a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster depends on the type of shared disk device and the method of shared disk access.
Upgrading a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster
These topics provide instructions for upgrading an existing PowerHA SystemMirror cluster configuration.
Installing PowerHA SystemMirror on server nodes
These topics list the prerequisites for the PowerHA SystemMirror software and describe how to install it.
Installing PowerHA SystemMirror on client nodes
These topics describe how to install and configure the PowerHA SystemMirror software on client systems. They also describe how to edit files and scripts related to the Cluster Information (Clinfo) program.
Configuring installed hardware
These topics describe how to ensure that network interface cards (NICs), shared external disk devices, and shared tape drives are ready to support a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster.
Defining shared LVM components
These topics describe how to define the LVM components shared by the nodes in a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster.
Configuring AIX for PowerHA SystemMirror
These topics discuss several general tasks necessary for ensuring that your PowerHA SystemMirror environment works as planned.
OEM disk, volume group, and file systems in a cluster
These topics describe how you can customize PowerHA SystemMirror software to integrate original equipment manufacturer (OEM) disks, volume groups, and file systems in a PowerHA SystemMirror cluster.
PowerHA SystemMirror and SNMP utilities
These topics discuss the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and describes the relationship between the PowerHA SystemMirror SNMP-based utilities and other SNMP-based utilities that run on POWER® processor-based systems. This section does not discuss the SNMP standard in depth.