Duration

5 days

Course Description

You will learn how to implement advanced IBM PowerVM features, such as Active Memory Sharing, Active Memory Expansion, shared dedicated processors, and multiple shared processor pools.

Additionally, you 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 IBM POWER processor-based systems, AIX, and the special monitoring, configuring, and tuning needs of logical partitions (LPARs). This course does not cover application monitoring and tuning.

You 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.

Audience

This course is for 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

Pre-requisites

The LPAR prerequisite skills can be met by attending one of the following classes or you can have equivalent LPAR skills:

Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30G)

Course Objective

Describe the effect of the IBM PowerVM virtualization features on performance and monitoring, such as: Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), shared processors, virtual processors, multiple shared processor pools (MSPP), shared dedicated capacity and Active Memory Expansion (AME).
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.
Describe the advanced features for availability, managing and monitoring virtualization and PowerVM virtualized workloads on IBM Power.
Configure and monitor Active Memory Expansion
Configure the Simplified Remote Restart feature
Understand the Hybrid Network Virtualization feature for SR-IOV
Understand advanced options for managing VIOS with the HMC.
Describe the different virtualization management tools that can be used to manage and monitor an IBM Power virtualized environment.

Key topics

Welcome
Exercise 1: Introduction to the lab environment
Exercise 3: Multiple shared processor pools and donating dedicated processors
Exercise 4: Active Memory Sharing (continued)
Exercise 7: Virtual storage performance
Exercise 8: Virtual network performance
Wrap up/Evaluations

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.