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What You’ll Learn
Describe the effect of the IBM PowerVM virtualization features on performance and monitoring, such as:
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), shared processors, multiple shared processor pools (MSPP), shared dedicated capacity, Active Memory Sharing (AMS), Active Memory Expansion (AME), Live Partition Mobility (LPM), and other virtualization features
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.
Perform a Live Partition Mobility between two Power Systems servers
Configure and monitor Active Memory Expansion
Configure the Suspend and Resume and Active Memory Sharing features available with the Virtual I/O Server
Implement the deduplication feature of Active Memory Sharing
Who Needs to Attend
This advanced course is for anyone responsible for implementing and managing virtualization features on a System p server including:

AIX technical support individuals
System administrators
Systems engineers
System Architects
Prerequisites
You should have taken:

Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Planning and Configuration (AN11G) or
Power Systems for AIX – Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30G)
or have equivalent LPAR skills

Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning (AN11G)
Power Systems for AIX – PowerVM I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30G)
Follow-On Courses
There are no follow-ons for this course.

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: Configuring multiple shared processor pools and donating dedicated processors
Exercise 3: Configuring 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: Active Memory Expansion
Exercise 5: Active Memory Expansion
Unit 6: I/O device virtualization performance and tuning
Day 4

Unit 6: I/O device virtualization performance and tuning (continued)
Exercise 6: I/O device virtualization performance and tuning
Unit 7: Live Partition Mobility
Exercise 7: Live Partition Mobility
Day 5

Unit 8: Suspend and resume
Exercise 8: Suspend and resume
Unit 9: Virtualization management tools
Wrap up/Evaluations.