Power Systems for AIX IV: Performance Management

This advanced course is for:

• AIX technical support personnel
• Performance benchmarking personnel
• AIX system administrators

• 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

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

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

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:

• TCP/IP for AIX Administrators (AN21G)

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:

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

Day 1

• 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 Student’s choice optional exercise from exercise 3 or exercise 4

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)

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 7 – Network performance
• Student’s choice optional exercise from exercises 3, 4, or 6

Day 5

• Unit 8 – NFS performance
• Exercise 8 – NFS performance tuning
• Unit 9 – Performance management methodology Exercise 9 – Summary exercise
• Student’s choice optional exercises from exercises 3, 4, 6, or 7