IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing
by Zhi Zhang, William Zanatta, Richard Wale, Niranjan Srinivasan, Bjorn Roden, Rona
IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Chapter 1. IBM Power Systems and performance tuning
- Chapter 2. Hardware implementation and LPAR planning
- Chapter 3. IBM Power Systems virtualization
- 3.1 Optimal logical partition (LPAR) sizing
- 3.2 Active Memory Expansion
- 3.2.1 POWER7+ compression accelerator
- 3.2.2 Sizing with the active memory expansion planning tool
- 3.2.3 Suitable workloads
- 3.2.4 Deployment
- 3.2.5 Tunables
- 3.2.6 Monitoring
- 3.2.7 Oracle batch scenario
- 3.2.8 Oracle OLTP scenario
- 3.2.9 Using amepat to suggest the correct LPAR size
- 3.2.10 Expectations of AME
- 3.3 Active Memory Sharing (AMS)
- 3.4 Active Memory Deduplication (AMD)
- 3.5 Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) sizing
- 3.6 Using Virtual SCSI, Shared Storage Pools and N-Port Virtualization
- 3.7 Optimal Shared Ethernet Adapter configuration
- 3.7.1 SEA failover scenario
- 3.7.2 SEA load sharing scenario
- 3.7.3 NIB with an SEA scenario
- 3.7.4 NIB with SEA, VLANs and multiple V-switches
- 3.7.5 Etherchannel configuration for NIB
- 3.7.6 VIO IP address assignment
- 3.7.7 Adapter choices
- 3.7.8 SEA conclusion
- 3.7.9 Measuring latency
- 3.7.10 Tuning the hypervisor LAN
- 3.7.11 Dealing with dropped packets on the hypervisor network
- 3.7.12 Tunables
- 3.8 PowerVM virtualization stack configuration with 10 Gbit
- 3.9 AIX Workload Partition implications, performance and suggestions
- 3.10 LPAR suspend and resume best practices
- Chapter 4. Optimization of an IBM AIX operating system
- 4.1 Processor folding, Active System Optimizer, and simultaneous multithreading
- 4.2 Memory
- 4.3 I/O device tuning
- 4.4 AIX LVM and file systems
- 4.5 Network
- 4.5.1 Network tuning on 10 G-E
- 4.5.2 Interrupt coalescing
- 4.5.3 10-G adapter throughput scenario
- 4.5.4 Link aggregation
- 4.5.5 Network latency scenario
- 4.5.6 DNS and IPv4 settings
- 4.5.7 Performance impact due to DNS lookups
- 4.5.8 TCP retransmissions
- 4.5.9 tcp_fastlo
- 4.5.10 MTU size, jumbo frames, and performance
- Chapter 5. Testing the environment
- 5.1 Understand your environment
- 5.2 Testing the environment
- 5.3 Testing components
- 5.4 Understanding processor utilization
- 5.5 Memory utilization
- 5.6 Disk storage bottleneck identification
- 5.7 Network utilization
- 5.8 Performance analysis at the CEC
- 5.9 VIOS performance advisor tool and the part command
- 5.10 Workload management
- Chapter 6. Application optimization
- Appendix A. Performance monitoring tools and what they are telling us
- Appendix B. New commands and new commands flags
- Appendix C. Workloads
- Related publications
- Back cover
IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing
IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing
IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing
IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing
IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing
IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing
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