System p Hands on Workshop

PowerVM
Agenda and Lab Overview

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Class Agenda
IBM System p

09:00 – 10:30 Lecture 01: PowerVM and VIO Overview

Lab: Intro to the lab environment
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15 Lab: Define the VIO Server LPAR
11:15 – 12:30 Lab: Enable VIO server installation from NIM
Lecture 02: Micro-Partition Overview
Demo
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch – during install
13:30 – 14:30 Lab: VIO Server activation and configuration
14:30 – 14:45 Lab: Defining Client LPAR for AIX
14:45 – 16:00 Lab: AIX LPAR and installation
Lecture 03: Intro to AIX Performance Tools and WPAR
16:00 – 16:15 Break
16:15 – 16:45 Lab: AIX Performance tools
16:45 – 17:15 Lab: Configure AIX LPAR and Workload Partition
17:15 – 18:00 Review, summary and Eval

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Class Objectives
IBM System p

ƒ Introduce POWER5 Virtualization which is part of PowerVM

– Overview of the VIO server
– Overview of shared processor LPARs

ƒ Provide a hands on experience

– Installing and Configuring a VIO (Virtual I/O Server) or IVM
• Create Virtual SCSI server devices
• Create Shared Ethernet Adapters
– Defining AIX clients to use the virtual resources
– Installing clients over a virtual network to virtual disks

ƒ This is an introduction to the technology

– Does not cover in depth details or sizing
– Does not cover problem determination techniques

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