Students in this course will learn how to implement advanced IBM PowerVM features, such as Active Memory Sharing, Active Memory Expansion, shared dedicated processors, multiple shared processor pools, and Live Partition Mobility.
Additionally, students will learn skills to implement, measure, analyze, and tune PowerVM virtualization features for optimal performance on IBM Power Systems servers. This course focuses on the features that relate to the performance of POWER6 and POWER7 processors, AIX, and the special monitoring, configuring, and tuning needs of logical partitions (LPARs). This course does not cover application monitoring and tuning.
Students will also learn AIX performance analysis and tuning tools that help an administrator take advantage of shared processors and other virtualization features of the IBM Power Systems servers.
Hands-on lab exercises reinforce each lecture and give the students practical experience.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
• Implement the deduplication feature of Active Memory Sharing• Configure the Suspend and Resume and Active Memory Sharing features available with the Virtual I/O Server• Configure and monitor Active Memory Expansion• Perform a Live Partition Mobility between two Power Systems servers• Interpret the outputs of AIX performance monitoring and tuning tools used to view the impact of features such as SMT, shared processors, additional shared processor pool activations, and device virtualization- Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), shared processors, multiple shared processor pools (MSPP), shared dedicated capacity, Active Memory Sharing (AMS), Active Memory Expansion (AME), Live Partition Mobility (LPM), and other virtualization features• Describe the effect of the IBM PowerVM virtualization features on performance and monitoring, such asAfter completing this course, the students should be able to:
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Anyone responsible for the system administrative duties implementing and managing virtualization features on a System p server.
The audience for this training includes the following: • AIX technical support individuals • System administrators • Systems engineers • System architects
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
The LPAR prerequisite skills can be met by attending one of the following classes or students can have equivalent LPAR skills.
• AN11 Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning
• AN30 Power Systems for AIX – Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization
COURSE CONTENT:
Day 1
Welcome
Unit 1: PowerVM features review
Exercise 1: Introduction to the lab environment
Unit 2: Shared processors and virtual processor tuning
Exercise 2: Shared processors and virtual processor tuning
Day 2
Unit 3: Configuring multiple shared processor pools and donating dedicated processors
Exercise 3: Configuring multiple shared processor pools and donating dedicated processors
Unit 4: Active Memory Sharing
Exercise 4: Active Memory Sharing
Day 3
Exercise 4: Active Memory Sharing (continued)
Unit 5: Active Memory Expansion
Exercise 5: Active Memory Expansion
Unit 6: I/O device virtualization performance and tuning
Day 4
Unit 6: I/O device virtualization performance and tuning (continued)
Exercise 6: I/O device virtualization performance and tuning
Unit 7: Live Partition Mobility
Exercise 7: Live Partition Mobility
Day 5
Unit 8: Suspend and resume
Exercise 8: Suspend and resume
Unit 9: Virtualization management tools
Wrap up/Evaluations
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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