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IBM PowerVM II: Advanced Features and Performance
Your virtualised environments must remain consistent with the services you need to deliver. With IBM PowerVM, structure resources and configurations to improve operational control. Strengthen your ability to prepare for changes and address infrastructure challenges.
- Duration
- 5 days 35 hours
- Code
- AN31FR Code
Presentation
IBM® PowerVM is a high-performance virtualisation technology available on servers with IBM Power processors. It combines software and hardware features to deliver flexible, secure virtualisation services. PowerVM represents both evolution and innovation, which explains its widespread deployment in businesses worldwide.
On this course, you will learn to configure advanced IBM PowerVM features, such as Active Memory Expansion, shared dedicated processors and multiple shared processor pools. You will also discover new availability and performance management features, such as simplified remote restart, hybrid network virtualisation and enhanced VIOS administration through the HMC.
Finally, you will use AIX performance analysis and optimisation tools to make the most of shared processor resources and other available virtualisation features. Practical exercises are also provided to explore each lesson in greater depth and gain immediate experience.
Objectives
By the end of the IBM PowerVM II course, you will achieve the following skills objectives:
- Describe the performance impact of POWER and PowerVM technologies such as Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), Multiple Shared Processor Pools (MSPP), micropartitioning, dedicated processor resource sharing, Active Memory Expansion (AME), Active Memory Sharing (AMS) and other features.
- Interpret output from performance measurement and tuning tools such as vmstat, iostat, smtctl, sar, curt, mpstat, topas and lparstat in a virtualised environment.
- Describe and configure new VIOS features such as shared storage pools.
- Describe, configure and use Live Partition Mobility to migrate a running AIX or Linux partition from one physical server to another without interrupting applications.
- Describe and configure AME.
- Describe and configure AMS, a technology that allows multiple partitions to share a pool of physical memory resources.
Program
Day 1
- Review of PowerVM features.
- Configuring shared processors and virtual processors.
- Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) and micropartitioning.
Day 2
- Managing shared processor pools and dedicated processor sharing.
- Simplified remote restart.
Day 3
- Active Memory Expansion.
- Virtual storage optimisation (part 1).
Day 4
- Virtual storage optimisation (part 2).
- Implementing Live Partition Mobility.
- Virtual network optimisation.
Day 5
- Managing Virtual I/O Servers with the HMC.
- Advanced PowerVM system maintenance.
- Monitoring tools for virtualisation and performance management.
Audience
This course is intended for:
- Anyone responsible for implementing and managing virtualisation features on an IBM Power server: support technicians, engineers or AIX system administrators.
Prerequisites
The IBM PowerVM II course requires:
- Practical experience and skills in partitioning and virtualisation on IBM Power Systems for AIX.
* The following courses will help you acquire this level of skills and knowledge:
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
Course highlights
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