IBM AIX: AN51G

AN51G: Power Systems for AIX IV:

Performance Management


             Recommended Duration: 5 Days
Skill Level: Advanced
Cost: $5,100 (b/GST)
(ENROL NOW)
Available for Web and Classroom Trainings.

Develop the skills to measure, analyze, and tune common performance issues on IBM Power Systems running AIX. Learn about performance management concepts and techniques and how to use the basic AIX tools to monitor, analyze, and tune an AIX 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, 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. The materials include AIX 7.1 enhancements and the exercises are executed on a POWER8 lab environment.

Training Path to IBM AIX Security, Network Administration and Performance


Audience


This advanced course is intended for:

  • AIX Technical Support Personnel
  • AIX System Administrators
  • Performance Benchmarking Personnel

Prerequisites


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

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:.

It is also very helpful to have a strong background in PowerVM (particularly micro partitioning and the role of the Virtual I/O Server). These skills can be built or reinforced by attending:


Course Agenda


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


Course Overview


Day 1

  • Introduction
  • Unit 1: Performance Analysis and Tuning Overview
  • Exercise 1: Working with Tunable Files
  • Unit 2: Data Collection
  • Exercise 2: Data Collection
  • Unit 3: Monitoring, Analyzing and Tuning CPU Usage
  • Exercise 3: Monitoring, Analyzing and Tuning CPU Usage (Parts 1 and 2)

Day 2

  • Exercise 3: Monitoring, Analyzing and Tuning CPU Usage (Parts 3, 4 and 5)
  • Unit 4: Virtual Memory Performance Monitoring and Tuning
  • Exercise 4: Virtual Memory Performance Monitoring and Tuning

Day 3

  • Unit 5: Physical and Logical Volume Performance
  • Exercise 5: Physical and Logical Volume Performance
  • Unit 6: File System Performance Monitoring and Tuning (Topic 1)
  • Exercise 6: File System Performance Monitoring and Tuning (Parts 1, 2 and 3)
  • Unit 7: Network Performance
  • Exercise Unit 7: Network Performance

Day 4

  • Unit 6: File System Performance Monitoring and Tuning (Topic 2)
  • Exercise 6: File System Performance Monitoring and Tuning (Part 4)
  • Unit 7: Network Performance
  • Exercise Unit 7: Network Performance

Day 5

  • Unit 8: NFS Performance
  • Exercise 8: NFS Performance Tuning
  • Unit 9: Performance Management Methodology
  • Exercise 9: Summary Exercise