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Mastering IBM AIX: Performance Management
Develop the skills to measure, analyze, and tune common performance issues on IBM Power servers running AIX.Learn about performance management concepts and techniques and how to use the basic AIX...
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$4,475USD
Duration
5 days
Course Code
AN51G
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Next Class:
Dec 14, 2026
Course Eligible for IBM Digital Badge
Upcoming Course Dates
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Dec 14, 2026 – Dec 18, 2026 (5 days)
Overview
Course Description
Develop the skills to measure, analyze, and tune common performance issues on IBM Power servers running AIX.
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.
Each lecture is reinforced with extensive hands-on lab exercises which provide practical experience.
The course covers AIX 7.3 enhancements, with exercises executed on a POWER8 lab environment, and includes content relevant to newer IBM Power servers up until IBM Power11.
Skills Gained
- 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
Who Can Benefit
This advanced course is for:
- AIX technical support personnel
- Performance benchmarking personnel
- AIX system administrators
Prerequisites
The instructor should have the following skills:
- ALL of the skills taught in this course (see course contents).
The instructor should successfully complete the following prerequisite courses:
- AN10G AIX Basics
- AN11G Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning
- AN12G Mastering IBM AIX: Implementation and Administration
- AN30G IBM PowerVM: Implementing Virtualization
- AN31G IBM PowerVM II: Advanced Management and Performance
It is further recommended that the instructor has completed most of the advanced courses in the AIX system administration curriculum and additional course in the PowerVM curriculum. For example:
- AN15G Mastering IBM AIX: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination
- AN22G AIX Network Installation Management: Concepts and Configuration
The instructor should have the following certifications:
- IBM AIX v7.3 Administrator Specialty
Course Details
Course Details
Day 1
- Unit 1 - Performance analysis and tuning overview
- Exercise 1 - Working with tunable files Unit 2 - Data collection
- Exercise 2 - Data collection
- Unit 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage
- Exercise 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage (parts 1 and 2)
Day 2
- Exercise 3 - Monitoring, analyzing, and tuning CPU usage (parts 3, 4 and 5)
- Unit 4 - Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning
- Exercise 4 - Virtual memory performance monitoring and tuning
- Student- s choice optional exercise from exercise 3 or exercise 4
Day 3
- Unit 5 - Physical and logical volume performance
- Exercise 5 - Physical and logical volume performance
- Unit 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (topic 1)
- Exercise 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (parts 1, 2, and 3)
Day 4
- Unit 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (topic 2)
- Exercise 6 - File system performance monitoring and tuning (part 4) Unit 7 - Network performance
- Exercise 7 - Network performance
- Student's choice optional exercise from exercises 3, 4, or 6
Day 5
- Unit 8 - NFS performance
- Exercise 8 - NFS performance tuning
- Unit 9 - Performance management methodology Exercise 9 - Summary exercise
- Student's choice optional exercises from exercises 3, 4, 6, or 7
Schedule
1 options available
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Dec 14, 2026 – Dec 18, 2026 (5 days)
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Reviews
Good Course. We covered a lot of material in a short amount of time. This course had useful labs that built upon each other.
I found this course informative. It was easy to follow and provided some good information.
Exit certified was great as it is very in depth and hands on learning which made it very easy to learn this type of work.
It is very good and very simple instructions. almost to much hand holding.
The class was very vast paced however the teacher was very good at checking in on us while giving us time to complete the labs.
