Power Systems for AIX – IV: Performance Management Schulung

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

Seminar-Ziele:

• 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