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POWER8 and AIX Enhancements Workshop

Course outline

AN092 days
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Duration

2 days

Course Description

This two-day workshop course is designed to provide continuing education for system administrators who have extensive experience with previous levels of POWER hardware, PowerVM, and AIX. It covers various enhancements to POWER hardware and firmware and to the AIX operating system. It starts with an overview of POWER8 architecture and equipment. It then proceeds with discussions on various software and firmware enhancements (including PowerVM 2.2.3 and AIX 7.1 TL3). These enhancements include eight thread SMT, simplified SEA configuration, SR-IOV support, and other enhancements. This is accomplished by discussing the enhancements in each of these followed by hands-on labs which provide additional exposure to the new environment.

For a lecture-only course that includes current POWER8 and AIX7 enhancements, attend AN05: POWER8 and AIX Enhancements. There can be significant overlap in discussion content between POWER8 and AIX Enhancements (AN05) and POWER8 and AIX Enhancements Workshop (AN09), depending upon where these courses are in their update cycles; read the course descriptions carefully. To learn only the very latest enhancements, attendance at IBM Technical conferences or symposiums is recommended.

Audience

This advanced course is for anyone responsible for system administrative duties including implementing and managing IBM POWER7+ or POWER8 servers running AIX 7.1.

Pre-requisites

You must have basic AIX, LPAR, and PowerVM system administration experience. The AIX prerequisite can be met by

attending one of the following classes or students can have equivalent AIX skills:

  • Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (AN12G)
  • AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals (AN14G)

The LPAR and PowerVM prerequisite can be met by attending the following class or students can have equivalent

LPAR skills.

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

Course Objective

  • Discuss the POWER8 hardware
  • Discuss and manage eight thread simultaneous multithreading
  • Discuss HMC enhancements
  • Discuss PowerVM enhancements
  • Discuss SR-IOV

Day 1

  • Welcome
  • Exercise 1 - POWER8 hardware documentation

Day 2

  • Exercise 2 - PowerVM and HMC enhancements
  • Exercise 3 - SMT enhancements
  • Exercise 4 - Miscellaneous AIX enhancements

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