Power Systems for AIX IV: Performance Management

Learn about performance management concepts and techniques and how to use the basic AIX tools to monitor, analyze, and tune an AIX system. The course covers how virtualization technologies such as the PowerVM environment and workload partitions affect AIX performance management. Monitoring and analyzing tools discussed in this course include vmstat, iostat, sar, tprof, svmon, netstat, lvmstat, and topas. Tuning tools include schedo, vmo, ioo, no, and nfso.

• Unit 1 - Performance analysis and tuning overview
• Exercise 1 - Working with tunable files Unit 2 - Data collection
• Exercise 2 - Data collection
• Unit 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage
• Exercise 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage (parts 1 and 2)
• Exercise 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage (parts 3, 4 and 5)
• Unit 4 - Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning Exercise 4 - Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning Student’s choice optional exercise from exercise 3 or exercise 4
• Unit 5 - Physical and logical volume performance
• Exercise 5 - Physical and logical volume performance
• Unit 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (topic 1)
• Exercise 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (parts 1, 2, and 3)
• Unit 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (topic 2)
• Exercise 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (part 4) Unit 7 - Network performance
• Exercise 7 - Network performance
• Unit 8 - NFS performance
• Exercise 8 - NFS performance tuning
• Unit 9 - Performance management methodology Exercise 9 - Summary exercise