Who should attend
This advanced course is for anyone responsible for implementing and managing virtualization features on a System p server including:
- AIX technical support individuals
- System administrators
- Systems engineers
- System Architects
Prerequisites
- Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Planning and Configuration (AN11) or (AX11) or
- Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30) or (AX30)
or have equivalent LPAR skills
- Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning (AN11G)
- Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30G)
Course Objectives
- Describe the effect of the IBM PowerVM virtualization features on performance and monitoring, such as:
- 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
- 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.
- Perform a Live Partition Mobility between two Power Systems servers
- Configure and monitor Active Memory Expansion
- Configure the Suspend and Resume and Active Memory Sharing features available with the Virtual I/O Server
- Implement the deduplication feature of Active Memory Sharing
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
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