IBM AIX System Administration III: Performance Management

Yorkshire (North)

Harrogate (HG3)

26/04/10

£

1,975

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Course Overview

This course explores AIX tools for system optimisation, to analyse and tune performance, and apply appropriate performance policies. Previous system admin experience is assumed.

Audience

System Administrators responsible for the performance of AIX systems.

Skills Gained

On completion, you will be able to :

• Distinguish between System and application performance constraints
• Describe how various AIX subsystems impact overall performance.
• Use AIX tools to measure and analyse performance
• Identify and minimise software and hardware constraints

Prerequisites

Prior system administration experience with AIX is assumed.

• AIX Basics (AU13GB)
• AIX System Administration I: Implementation (AU14GB)
• AIX System Administration II: Problem Determination (AU16GB)

Course Outline

This course covers :

• Overview of performance concepts
• AIX performance analysis tools
• The AIX scheduler and how to use it to avoid CPU bottlenecks
• The AIX Virtual Memory Manager and how to modify its behaviour
• AIX I/O subsystems
• The use of LVM to maximise I/O performance
• Factors affecting Network throughput, including NFS
• Application tuning and the use of the trace tools