Power Systems for AIX IV: Performance Management

This is an advanced course for AIX technical support personnel, performance benchmarking personnel, and AIX system administrators.

Develop the skills to measure, analyze, and tune common performance issues on IBM POWER systems running AIX 6.

Learn about performance management concepts and techniques and how to use basic AIX tools to monitor, analyze, and tune an AIX6 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, filemon, netstat, lvmstat, and topas. Tuning tools include schedo, vmo, ioo, no, and nfso.

Also learn 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.

After completing this course, students should be able to accomplish the following:

• Define performance terminology
• Describe the methodology for managing performance on 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

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

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