Students in this course learn advanced skills to measure, analyze, and tune AIX 5L subsystems for optimal performance on the IBM POWER5 processor-based system. This course focuses on the features that relate to the special monitoring, configuring, performance management, and tuning needs of AIX 5L logical partitions (LPARs). This course does not cover application monitoring and tuning.
Students attending this course are expected to have extensive AIX 5L system administration and performance monitoring skills. These skills can be obtained by attending the following courses:
- AU18 AIX Version 5L System Administration III: Performance Management
Students are also expected to have logical partition administration skills on POWER5 processor-based systems which can be obtained by attending one of the following courses:
- AU73 Logical Partitioning (LPAR) on POWER5 pSeries Systems or
- AU74 Sserver p5 Logical Partitioning (LPAR) for pSeries POWER4 Administrators
Course contents:
- Introduction to Performance in a Virtualized Environment
- Simultaneous Multi-Threading
- Micro-Partitioning
- Virtual I/O server and Virtual SCSI
- Virtual Ethernet
- Shared Ethernet Adapter
- Implementing Partition Load Manager
- Performance Management Methodology