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Power Systems for AIX IV:

Performance Management

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Course objectives
After completing this course, you should be able 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

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Course agenda
Day 1
Unit 1 - Performance analysis and tuning overview
Unit 2 - Data collection
Day 2
Unit 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage
Unit 4 - Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning
Day 3
Unit 5 - Physical and logical volume performance
Unit 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning
Day 4
Unit 7 - Network performance
Unit 8 - NFS performance
Day 5
Unit 9 - Performance management methodology

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Class logistics
Schedule
Breaks and lunch
Start and stop times
Logistics
Building access
Messages
Facilities
Smoking policy
Parking
Emergency exits

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Introductions
Name
Company
Job duties
AIX or other UNIX experience
Computer systems at work
System usage/application
Expectations

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