AIX 5L System Administration III: Performance Management

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AIX 5L System Administration III: Performance Management

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code.

Q1318

length.

5 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

IBM

price.

$2,850

IACET credits 4.0

Gain the skills to measure, analyze, and tune AIX subsystems on IBM RS/6000 hardware for optimum performance. Learn how to manage the performance of AIX and the performance of applications running under AIX. Examine performance management concepts and techniques and the use of standard AIX tools (sar, iostat, vmstat, and trace). 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.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

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 (Q1314)
	AIX 5L System Administration II : Problem Determination (Q1316)
	OR have six months AIX experience
	AND you should 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 tools and standard UNIX tools
	List various sources of information and support for capacity planning, system assurance, and performance tuning

course materials

The course materials cover AIX 5L Version 5.1 and 5.2

hands-on labs

Nine labs are included to address Working with Tunable Files, Central Processing Unit (CPU), virtual memory, Input/Output (I/O) performance : physical and logical storage, I/O performance : file systems, network performance, NFS Performance, additional tools and services, and an optional exercise on Configuring and Using PDT.

certification

This course prepares you for IBM Certification Test AIX 5L Performance and System Tuning.

ibm education advantage program eligibility:

	Yes - IBM Education Card
	Yes - IBM Education Pack
	Yes - IBM Corporate Education Pass
	Yes - IBM Education Pack - online account

skill level

Advanced

course content details

	Performance analysis and tuning overview

	define performance tuning
	list the major steps in the performance tuning process
	explain the difference between physical and logical resources
	list the components that are subject to system-level tuning
	describe a plan of action for performance problem solving

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

	demonstrate how CPU scheduler algorithms can be modified using various tools
	demonstrate the application of standard UNIX and AIX tools in determining CPU bottlenecks
	interpret results and reports generated by standard UNIX and AIX tools

	Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning

	explain basic virtual memory concepts and what issues affect performance
	use vmstat and interpret its reports
	use svmon and interpret its reports
	use rmss and interpret its reports
	use vmo and schedo to alter system parameters

	Physical and logical volume performance

	identify factors related to physical and logical volume performance
	use iostat and filemon to identify Input/Output (I/O) bottlenecks
	configure physical disks 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
	use the fileplace tool to examine file fragmentation
	reorganize a file system to reduce file fragmentation

	Network performance

	list the factors and system parameters that affect network performance
	use netstat, nfsstat, and netpmon to monitor network performance
	use no, nfso, chdev, ifconfig, and smit to tune network performance
	use tcpdump and iptrace to examine traffic

	Network File System (NFS) performance

	define the basic NFS concepts
	list the differences between NFS V2 and NFS V3
	tune NFS servers
	tune NFS clients
	tune RPC daemons

	Additional tools and services

	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 problem determination

	determine bottlenecks by applying the knowledge gained in this class to interpret performance reports
	recommend a solution for identified bottlenecks
	list additional sources of performance analysis aids