Residency Details

This in an unique opportunity to work in Poughkeepsie, home of the IBM POWER Systems Clustering Solutions, and use the tools, utilities, documentation and other resources available to help the IT professional leverage the high availability features and implementation best practices of the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX and the IBM POWER platform to deploy business continuity solutions. Residents will work closely with the technical focal points, the development teams, and get hands-on experience examining PowerHA features and identify and document best practices for exploiting these features. They will also participate in training and discussion sessions with ITSO technical project leaders and the PowerHA development teams, provide feedback, and author the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1.x for AIX Best Practices and Reference Architectures Redbooks publication. After this six-week experience (see the residency time table), each resident will have refreshed skills and a broader knowledge of PowerHA best practices and reference architecture on POWER systems thus enabling them to provide a leading role with PowerHA on POWER systems sales and support.

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This residency begins November 11 2013, ends December 20 2013 (6 weeks), and requires 5 residents. The residency is running in Poughkeepsie NY USA with the following format:

The residency will kick off on Monday November 11, 2013:

For the first four weeks (November 11 through December 6) - The residents will be gathered at the IBM ITSO in Poughkeepsie, New York.

For the last two weeks (December 9 through December 20) - The residents will be working remotely from their respective countries.

During the residency, the team will implement and test high availability scenarios with the latest IBM PowerHA Editions software solution leveraging the comprehensive set of the POWER virtualization features to develop and document high availability best practices and reference architectures. During the residency, many PowerHA SystemMirror features will be tested and documented. This IBM Redbooks publication will help strengthen the position of the PowerHA SystemMirror solution with a well-defined and documented best practices deployment model within a POWER system virtualized environment allowing customers a planned foundation for business resilient infrastructure solutions.

The IBM Redbooks publication that the residents will develop is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for providing high availability solutions and support with the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Standard and Enterprise Editions on POWER systems.

This IBM Redbooks publication will address topics to help answer customers' complex high availability best practices requirements in order to help maximize systems' availability, and provide documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the worldwide support teams.

This residency will examine the tools, utilities, documentation, and other resources available to help the technical teams provide business resilience solutions and support with the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Standard and Enterprise Editions on POWER systems virtualized environments.