About Course
Develop the skills to measure analyze and tune common performance issues on IBM Power Systems running AIX Learn about performance management concepts and techniques and how to use the basic AIX tools to monitor analyze and tune an AIX system The course covers how virtualization technologies such as the PowerVM environment and workload partitions affect AIX performance management Monitoring and analyzing tools discussed in this course include vmstat iostat sar tprof svmon netstat lvmstat and topas Tuning tools include schedo vmo ioo no and nfso The course also covers how to use Performance Problem Reporting PerfPMR to capture a variety of performance data for later analysis Each lecture is reinforced with extensive hands on lab exercises which provide practical experience The materials include AIX 7 1 enhancements and the exercises are executed on a POWER8 lab environment This advanced course is for AIX technical support personnel Performance benchmarking personnel AIX system administrators Define performance terminology Describe the methodology for tuning a system Identify the set of basic AIX tools to monitor analyze and tune a system Use AIX tools to determine common bottlenecks in the central processing unit CPU virtual memory manager VMM logical volume manager LVM internal disk input output I O and network subsystems Use AIX tools to demonstrate techniques to tune the subsystems You are expected to have basic AIX system administration skills These skills can be obtained by attending the following courses AIX Jumpstart for UNIX professionals AN14G or Power Systems for AIX II Implementation and Administration AN12G It is very helpful to have a strong background in TCP IP networking to support the network performance portion of the course These skills can be built or reinforced by attending TCP IP for AIX Administrators AN21G It is also very helpful to have a strong background in PowerVM particularly micro partitioning and the role of the Virtual I O Server These skills can be built or reinforced by attending Power Systems for AIX Virtualization I Implementing Virtualization AN30G IBM Power Systems System p AIX
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Who Can Benefit
- Day 1
- Unit 1 - Performance analysis and tuning overview
- Exercise 1 - Working with tunable files Unit 2 - Data collection
- Exercise 2 - Data collection
- Unit 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage
- Exercise 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage (parts 1 and 2)
- Day 2
- Exercise 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage (parts 3, 4 and 5)
- Unit 4 - Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning Exercise 4 - Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning Student- s choice optional exercise from exercise 3 or exercise 4
- Day 3
- Unit 5 - Physical and logical volume performance
- Exercise 5 - Physical and logical volume performance
- Unit 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (topic 1)
- Exercise 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (parts 1, 2, and 3)
- Day 4
- Unit 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (topic 2)
- Exercise 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (part 4) Unit 7 - Network performance
- Exercise 7 - Network performance
- Student's choice optional exercise from exercises 3, 4, or 6
- Day 5
- Unit 8 - NFS performance
- Exercise 8 - NFS performance tuning
- Unit 9 - Performance management methodology Exercise 9 - Summary exercise
- Student's choice optional exercises from exercises 3, 4, 6, or 7