Power Systems for AIX IV: Performance Management

Required skills

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 (AU140)

or

• Power Systems for AIX II: Implementation and Administration (AN120)

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 (AU070)

or

• TCP/IP for AIX Administrators (AN210)

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 (AU730)

or

• Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN300)

Course outline

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
• Exercise 3 parts 1 and 2

Day 2

• Exercise 3 parts 3, 4 and 5
• Unit 4 - Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning
• Exercise 4
• Student's choice optional exercise from Ex 3 or Ex 4

Day 3

• Unit 5 - Physical and logical volume performance
• Exercise 5
• Unit 6 File system performance, topic 1
• Exercise 6, parts 1, 2, and 3

Day 4

• Unit 6 File system performance, topic 2
• Exercise 6, part 4
• Unit 7 - Network performance
• Exercise 7
• Student's choice optional exercise from exercises 3, 4, 5, or 6

Day 5

• Unit 8 - NFS performance
• Exercise 8
• Unit 9 - Performance management methodology
• Exercise 9
• Student's choice optional exercises from exercises 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7