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Develop the skills to measure, analyze, and tune common performance issues on IBM POWER systems running AIX6.

Learn about performance management concepts and techniques and how to use of basic AIX tools to monitor, analyze, and tune an AIX6 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, filemon, 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.

You are expected to have basic AIX system administration skills. These skills can be obtained by attending the following courses:

AIX System Administration I: Implementation (AU14)
or Power Systems for AIX II: Implementation and Administration (AN12)

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:

AIX 5L Configuring TCP/IP ( AU07 )
or TCP/IP for AIX Administrators (AN21)

It is also very helpful to have a strong background in PowerVM (paricularly micropartitioning and the role of the virtual I/O server). These skills can be built or reinforced by attending:

System p LPAR and Virtualization I: Planning and Configuration (AU73)
or Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30)

Who Should Attend?

This 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

Day 1

Unit 1 - Performance Analysis and Tuning Overview
Exercise 1
Unit 2 Data Collection
Exercise 2
Unit 3 - Monitoring, Analyzing, and Tuning CPU Usage

Day 2

Exercise 3
Unit 4 - Virtual Memory Performance Monitoring and Tuning
Exercise 4

Day 3

Unit 5 - Physical and Logical Volume Performance
Exercise 5
Unit 6 File System Performance Monitoring and Tuning
Exercise 6

Day 4

Unit 7 - Network Performance
Exercise 7

Day 5

Unit 8 - NFS Performance
Exercise 8
Unit 9 - Performance Management Methodology
Exercise 9

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08 August 2024