IBM AN31G - Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization II: Advanced PowerVM and Performance

Course Outline

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: Multiple shared processor pools and donating dedicated processors
• Exercise 3: 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: Suspend and Resume Exercise 5: Suspend and Resume Unit 6: Active Memory Expansion Exercise 6: Active Memory Expansion

Day 4

• Unit 7: Virtual storage performance
• Exercise 7: Virtual storage performance Unit 8: Virtual network performance

Day 5

• Exercise 8: Virtual network performance
• Unit 9: Virtualization monitoring and performance management tools Exercise 9: Using the Virtual I/O Server Performance Analysis Reporting Tool
• Wrap up/Evaluations

Objective

• Describe the effect of the IBM PowerVM virtualization features on performance and monitoring, such as:
  
  • Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), shared processors, virtual processors, multiple shared processor pools (MSPP), shared dedicated capacity, Active Memory Sharing (AMS), Active Memory Expansion (AME)

• 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
• Configure and monitor Active Memory Expansion
• Configure the Suspend and Resume and Active Memory Sharing features
• Implement the deduplication feature of Active Memory Sharing