Power Systems for AIX – Virtualization II: Advanced PowerVM and Performance (AN31G) – Outline

Detailed 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