Power Systems for AIX – Virtualization II: Advanced PowerVM and Performance Schulung

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

Seminar-Ziele:

• 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