IBM PowerVM II: Advanced Management and Performance Training

This course is for anyone responsible for implementing and managing virtualization features on a System p server including:

• AIX technical support individuals
• System administrators
• Systems engineers
• System Architects

Students should complete:

• Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Planning and Configuration (AN11) or (AX11) or
• Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30) or (AX30)

or have equivalent LPAR skills

• Describe the effect of the POWER6 virtualization features on performance and monitoring, such as: Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), Micro-Partitioning, Multiple Shared Processor Pools (MSPP), shared dedicated capacity, Active Memory Sharing (AMS) and other virtualization features
• Interpret the outputs of AIX 6.1performance monitoring and tuning tools used to view the impact of SMT, Micro-Partitioning, additional shared processor pool activations and device virtualization. The tools include: vmstat, iostat, sar, topas, trace, curt, mpstat, lparstat, smtctl
• List various sources of information and support related to AIX 6.1 performance tools, system sizing, system tuning, and AIX 6.1 enhancements and new features
• Perform a Live Partition Mobility between two different POWER6 servers
• Describe the New features available with the Virtual I/O Server version 2.1 and version 2.2 such as: N_port ID Virtualization, Heterogeous Multi-threading, Virtual Tape devices, Active Memory sharing
• Describe and implement the Active Memory Sharing feature

Day 1

• Unit 1 - PowerVM features Review
• Exercise 1 - Introduction to the Lab environment
• Unit 2 - Processor Virtualization Tuning
• Exercise 2 - SMT and Micro-Partitioning

Day 2

• Exercise 2 - SMT and Micro-Partitioning (con't)
• Unit 3 - Shared Dedicated Capacity and Multiple Shared Processor Pools
• Exercise 3 - Configuring Multiple Shared Processor Pools
• Unit 4 - Active Memory Sharing
• Exercise 4 - Configuring Active Memory Sharing

Day 3

• Exercise 4 - Configuring Active Memory Sharing (con't)
• Unit 5 - N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
• Unit 6 - I/O Devices Virtualization Performance and Tuning
• Exercise 6 - Virtual I/O Server, vSCSI, Virtual Ethernet and shared Ethernet Adapter

Day 4

• Exercise 6 - Virtual I/O Server, vSCSI, Virtual Ethernet and shared Ethernet Adapter (con't)
• Unit 7 - Live Partition Mobility
• Exercise 7 - Live Partition Mobility implementation
• Unit 8 -PowerVM Advanced System Maintenance

Day 5

• Exercise 8 - PowerVM Maintenance
• Unit 9 - Virtualization Management Tools