AIX 5L System Administration III: Performance Management

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AIX 5L System Administration III: Performance Management

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code.

AU180

length.

5 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

IBM

price.

$3,575

Gain the skills to measure, analyze, and tune AIX subsystems on IBM eServer pSeries hardware for optimum performance. Learn how to manage the performance of AIX 5L and the performance of applications running under AIX 5L. Examine performance management concepts and techniques and the use of standard AIX tools (sar, iostat, vmstat, and tracem schedo, vmo, and ioo). Also, learn to use advanced AIX performance tools (tprof, svmon, and filemon). In extensive hands-on lab exercises, reinforce each lecture and gain practical experience applicable to your performance management requirements.

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who can benefit

This is an advanced course for system administrators, system engineers, and system support individuals.

prerequisites

You should complete:

	AIX 5L System Administration I : Implementation (AU140) or (Q1314)
	AIX 5L System Administration II : Problem Determination (AU160) or (Q1316)
	or have six months AIX experience
	You should also be able to: Manage AIX physical and logical storage
	Do basic performance analysis to identify where problems are in the system and be able to suggest basic alternative strategies
	Utilize additional subsystems including cron to schedule system tasks and accounting to analyze system activity
	Pull together many of the topics learned in previous courses to start addressing real-life system administrator issues

skills gained

	Distinguish between system and application performance constraints
	Describe the performance implications of each subsystem by understanding, in general terms, how the subsystem works
	Identify and eliminate (or minimize) various software and hardware performance constraints using AIX 5L tools and standard UNIX tools
	List various sources of information and support for capacity planning, system assurance, performance analysis and tuning

hands-on labs

Labs are included to address working with tunable files, Central Processing Unit (CPU), virtual memory and the Virtual Memory Manager (VMM), Input/Output (I/O) performance, physical and logical storage, Input/Output (I/O) performance, file systems, network performance, Network File System (NFS) performance, additional tools and services, and an optional exercise on configuring and using Performance Diagnostic Toolbox (PDT).

ibm education advantage program eligibility:

Yes - IBM Education Pack - online account

related courses, exams and materials

	before related training and products

	AU140 AIX 5L System Administration I: Implementation
	AU160 AIX 5L System Administration II: Problem Determination

course content details

	Performance analysis and tuning overview

	describe performance terminology
	explain performance components
	describe the performance tuning process
	explain performance metrics
	list tools available for analysis and tuning

	Monitoring, analyzing and tuning Central Processing Unit (CPU) usage

	explain processes and threads
	explain how priorities and scheduling work
	demonstrate the application of standard AIX tools in determining bottlenecks
	interpret results and reports generated by the tools
	demonstrate techniques for tuning the overall system

	Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning

	explain basic virtual memory concepts and what issues affect performance
	explain how to analyze memory usage
	explain page replacement
	analyze and tune page replacement
	use VMM monitoring and tuning

	Physical and logical volume performance

	identify factors related to physical and logical volume performance
	use performance tools to identify I/O bottlenecks
	configure physical disks and adapters for optimal performance
	configure logical volumes for optimal performance

	File system performance monitoring and tuning

	list characteristics of the file system that apply to performance
	describe how file fragmentation affects disk I/O performance
	use the filemon tool to evaluate file system performance
	tune asynchronous I/O, synchronous I/O and Journaled File System (JFS) log
	tune direct I/O and release-behind
	tune page read-ahead and write-behind
	identify resource bottlenecks

	Network performance

	list the factors and system parameters that affect network performance
	use netstat, netpmon, tcpdump, and iptrace/ipreport to monitor network performance
	use no, chdev, ifconfig, and smit to tune network performance

	NFS performance

	define the basic NFS concepts
	list the differences between NFS V2, V3 and V4
	tune NFS servers
	tune NFS clients
	tune Remote Procedure Call (RPC) daemons

	Additional tools

	use the trace facility to diagnose performance problems
	describe the roles of the manager and agent components of the AIX Performance Toolbox
	use the topas command

	Database tuning

	define basic database terminology
	list the database tuning components
	tune DBMS
	tune database I/O

	Performance summary

	distinguish between a performance problem and a functional problem
	define a performance problem
	collect performance data using Performance Problem Reporting (PerfPMR)
	define performance tuning
	list the performance tuning strategy