In Power Systems for AIX - Implementation and Administration training course, you will learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a POWER (System p) partitioned environment. This course is based on AIX running on a Power system managed by HMC. This course is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX and has a high practical content.
In Power Systems for AIX - LPAR Configuration and Planning training course, you will learn the skills needed to become an effective administrator on IBM's Power-based systems that support Logical Partitioning (LPAR). Learn about the features of PowerVM Editions and how to configure and manage LPARs running AIX using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
In Power Systems for AIX - Performance Management training course, you will learn about performance management concepts and techniques and how to use the basic AIX tools to monitor, analyze, and tune an AIX system. The course covers how virtualization technologies such as the PowerVM environment and workload partitions affect AIX performance management. Monitoring and analyzing tools discussed in this course include vmstat, iostat, sar, tprof, svmon, netstat, lvmstat, and topas. Tuning tools include schedo, vmo, ioo, no, and nfso. The course also covers how to use Performance Problem Reporting (PerfPMR) to capture a variety of performance data for later analysis.
The Power Systems for AIX - PowerVM: Implementing Virtualization training course provides an overview of the PowerVM edition's features on POWER processor-based systems. It explains the new features and benefits of virtualization including processor virtualization, Virtual I/O Server, and virtual devices, such as virtual Ethernet, virtual SCSI, and virtual Fibre Channel adapters. Basic and advanced configurations of the Virtual I/O Server and its clients are discussed including various availability options.
In Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization: Advanced PowerVM and Performance training course, you will learn how to implement advanced IBM PowerVM features, such as Active Memory Sharing, Active Memory Expansion, shared dedicated processors, and multiple shared processor pools. Additionally, you will learn skills to implement, measure, analyze, and tune PowerVM virtualization features for optimal performance on IBM Power Systems servers. This course focuses on the features that relate to the performance of IBM POWER processor-based systems, AIX, and the special monitoring, configuring, and tuning needs of logical partitions (LPARs). This course does not cover application monitoring and tuning.
The Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization: Implementing Shared Storage Pools training course, provides the implementation and management skills to create Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) storage groups and shared storage pools on IBM Power Systems. You learn to create a VIOS storage group, manage storage in the shared storage pool, provision storage to client partitions using either thick or thin provisioning, mirror the shared storage pool, create and use snapshots, and manage the VIOS storage group configuration by learning how to do backups, restores, and software upgrades.
By attending Power Systems for AIX - Implementation and Administration workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
- Perform system startup and shutdown
- Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)
- Manage physical and logical devices
- Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
- Perform logical volume and file system management
- Create and manage user and group accounts
- Perform and restore system backups
- Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks, and security to implement customized access of files and directories
- Configure TCP/IP networking
- Configure and conduct Live Kernel Updates on a running AIX LPAR
By attending Power Systems for AIX - LPAR Configuration and Planning workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Describe important concepts that are associated with managing POWER processor-based systems, such as logical partitioning, dynamic partitioning, virtual devices, virtual processors, virtual consoles, virtual local area network (VLAN), and shared processors
- Describe the features of the PowerVM editions
- Describe the functions provided by the HMC
- Configure and manage the HMC, including users and permissions, software, start and shutdown, remote access features, network configuration, security features, HMC backup and restore options, and the HMC reload procedure
- Describe the rules that are associated with allocating resources, including dedicated processors, processing units for Micro-Partitioning, memory, physical and virtual I/O for AIX and Linux partitions
- Configure and manage LPARs by using the HMC graphical user interface (GUI) and HMC commands
- Power on and power off the Power Systems server
- Use the HMC to back up and restore partition data
- Perform dynamic LPAR operations (DLPAR)
By attending Power Systems for AIX - Performance Management workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Define performance terminology
- Describe the methodology for tuning a system
- Identify the set of basic AIX tools to monitor, analyze, and tune a system
- Use AIX tools to determine common bottlenecks in the Central Processing Unit (CPU), Virtual Memory Manager (VMM), Logical Volume Manager (LVM), internal disk Input/Output (I/O), and network subsystems
- Use AIX tools to demonstrate techniques to tune the subsystems
By attending Power Systems for AIX - PowerVM: Implementing Virtualization workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Configure virtual SCSI devices that are backed by physical volumes, logical volumes, and optical media devices
- Configure the Optical Media Repository, load a CD image, and use it to install a new AIX partition
- Configure virtual Fibre channel devices using NPIV technology
- Configure Ethernet link aggregation for load balancing and backup channel in the VIOS
- Configure Shared Ethernet adapter failover and load sharing
- Configure vNIC failover
- Perform Virtual I/O Server maintenance operations
By attending Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization: Advanced PowerVM and Performance workshop, delegates will learn to:
- 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
By attending Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization: Implementing Shared Storage Pools workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Configure a Virtual I/O Server storage group and a shared storage pool
- Manage physical volumes in the shared storage pool
- Create and manage logical units in the shared storage pool
- Allocate storage to client partitions using thick or thin provisioning
- Configure the shared storage pool alert thresholds
- Mirror the shared storage pool
- Create, use, and manage storage snapshots
- Back up and restore a VIOS storage group configuration
For Power Systems for AIX - Implementation and Administration
- Execute basic AIX commands
- Manage files and directories
- Use the vi editor
- Use redirection, pipes, and tees
- Use the utilities find and grep
- Use the command and variable substitution
- Set and change Korn shell variables
- Write simple shell scripts
- Familiar with partitioning concepts
For Power Systems for AIX - LPAR Configuration and Planning
- General TCP/IP knowledge is strongly recommended
For Power Systems for AIX - Performance Management
- Basic AIX system administration skills
- It is very helpful to have a strong background in TCP/IP networking
- It is also very helpful to have a strong background in PowerVM (particularly micro partitioning and the role of the virtual I/O server)
For Power Systems for AIX - PowerVM: Implementing Virtualization
- Advanced system administration experience with AIX 6 or AIX 7
- General TCP/IP knowledge is strongly recommended
- Logical partition administration skills on Power Systems servers
For Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization: Advanced PowerVM and Performance
- LPAR skills
For Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization: Implementing Shared Storage Pools
- Basics of configuring and managing a Virtual I/O Server
- Basics of configuring and managing a virtual device, including file-backed devices.
For Power Systems for AIX - Implementation and Administration: System Administrators or anyone implementing and managing an AIX operating system in a multiuser Power Systems partitioned environment.
For Power Systems for AIX - LPAR Configuration and Planning: System Administrators, Technical Support Individuals, and IBM business partners who implement LPARs on IBM Power Systems.
For Power Systems for AIX - Performance Management: AIX technical support personnel, Performance benchmarking personnel, AIX system administrators
For Power Systems for AIX - PowerVM: Implementing Virtualization: System Administrators, Technical Support Personnel, and Business Partners responsible for implementing LPARs on IBM Power Systems with AIX servers.
For Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization: Advanced PowerVM and Performance && Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization: Implementing Shared Storage Pools: AIX technical support individuals, System administrators, Systems engineers, System architects