This course provides an overview of the Advanced Power Virtualization Feature for the System p5. It explains the new features and benefits of virtualization. This includes discussing basic and advanced configurations of the Virtual I/O Server and its clients, high availability, Single Points of Failure (SPOF), and APV management tasks.
Students must have advanced system administration experience with AIX 5L. This prerequisite may be met by attending one of the following classes or students may have equivalent AIX and LPAR skills.
- AU14 AIX Version 5L System Administration I: Implementation
- AU16 AIX 5L System Administration II: Problem Determination
- AW18 AIX 5L Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals
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 eServer p5 Logical Partitioning (LPAR) for pSeries POWER4 Administrators
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Discuss the advantages or value of APV
- Define Micro-Partitioning/Shared Processor LPAR’s
- Discuss the benefits of simultaneous multi-threading
- Define the Virtual I/O Server
- Configure virtual devices such as Virtual Ethernet, Shared Ethernet, and Virtual Disks
- Identify Single Points of Failure in virtualized environments
- Configure Shared Ethernet Adapter Failover
- Configuring multiple VIO Servers for high availability
- Configure MPIO in a VIO client partition
- Update the system firmware
- Configure advanced virtual networking options
- Configure advanced virtual SCSI options
- Back up and Restore the VIO Server
- Describe Partition Load Manager (PLM)
- Use HMC and AIX tools to evaluate the LPAR’s environment