IBM PowerVM II: Advanced Management and Performance

Course overview

Learn advanced IBM PowerVM features, including Active Memory Expansion, shared processors, availability, performance management and enhanced VIOS administration using the HMC.

Students in this course will learn how to implement advanced IBM PowerVM features, such as Active Memory Expansion, shared dedicated processors and multiple shared processor pools. Students will also be exposed to new availability and performance management features such as Simplified Remote Restart, Hybrid Network Virtualization and enhanced VIOS administration using the HMC.

Additionally, students will learn skills to implement, measure, analyze and tune PowerVM virtualization features for optimal performance on IBM Power servers. This course focuses on two main areas. First, the features that relate to the performance of IBM Power servers, AIX, VIOS and the special monitoring, configuring, and tuning needs of logical partitions (LPARs). This course does not cover application monitoring and tuning. Second, the course will explore advanced features for availability and managing and monitoring virtualization and PowerVM virtualized workloads on IBM Power.

Students will also learn AIX performance analysis and tuning tools that help an administrator take advantage of shared processors and other virtualization features of the IBM Power servers. Hands-on lab exercises reinforce each lecture and give the students practical experience.

Who should attend

This course is for anyone responsible for the system administrative duties implementing and managing virtualization features on an IBM Power server. The audience for this training includes the following: • AIX technical support individuals • System administrators • Systems engineers • System architects

Prerequisites

The LPAR prerequisite skills can be met by attending one of the following classes or you can have equivalent LPAR skills: • Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30G)

Delivery formats

• • Instructor-led online (virtual classroom)
• • Instructor-led on-site at your premises
• • Self-paced online training
• • Private/closed group delivery for corporate teams

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Related and follow-on courses

• AN10D1DG — AIX Basics (Basic)
• AN11DG — AIX I: IBM PowerVM Logical Partition Management (Digital Course) (Basic)
• AN11G — IBM Power Virtualization Fundamentals (Intermediate)
• AN12D1DG — AIX Implementation and Administration Part 1 (Digital course) (Basic)