IBM PowerVM II: Advanced Management and Performance
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This course covers advanced IBM PowerVM features for performance, availability, and management on IBM Power servers. Topics include Active Memory Expansion, shared processors, multiple shared processor pools, Simplified Remote Restart, Hybrid Network Virtualization, VIOS administration with the HMC, and performance analysis and tuning techniques for virtualized workloads.
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Learn advanced IBM PowerVM features, including Active Memory Expansion, shared processors, availability, performance management and enhanced VIOS administration using the HMC.
Classroom or Instructor-led online
paid
300
August 1, 2026
July 30, 2026
36 hours
Day 1
(00:30) Welcome
(01:00)
Unit 1: PowerVM features review
(00:45) Exercise 1: Introduction to the lab environment
(02:00)
Unit 2: Shared processors and virtual processor tuning
(02:00) Exercise 2: Shared processors and virtual processor tuning
Day 2
(01:30)
Unit 3: Multiple shared processor pools and donating dedicated processors
(01:30) Exercise 3: Multiple shared processor pools and donating dedicated processors
(01:30)
Unit 4: Simplified Remote Restart
(01:30) Exercise 4: Simplified Remote Restart
Day 3
(02:00)
Unit 5: Active Memory Expansion
(00:45) Exercise 5: Active Memory Expansion
(02:00)
Unit 6: Virtual storage performance
Day 4
(02:00) Exercise 6: Virtual storage performance
(02:00)
Unit 7: Virtual network performance
(01:30) Exercise 7: Virtual network performance
Day 5
(01:00)
Unit 8: Virtual I/O Server Management with HMC
(0:45) Exercise 8: Virtual I/O Server Management with HMC
(01:30)
Unit 9: Virtualization monitoring and performance management tools
(00:45) Exercise 9: Using Virtualization monitoring and performance management tools
- Describe the effect of the IBM PowerVM virtualization features on performance and monitoring, such as: Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), shared processors, virtual processors, multiple shared processor pools (MSPP), shared dedicated capacity and Active Memory Expansion (AME).
- 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.
- Describe the advanced features for availability, managing and monitoring virtualization and PowerVM virtualized workloads on IBM Power.
- Configure and monitor Active Memory Expansion
- Configure the Simplified Remote Restart feature
- Understand the Hybrid Network Virtualization feature for SR-IOV
- Understand advanced options for managing VIOS with the HMC.
- Describe the different virtualization management tools that can be used to manage and monitor an IBM Power virtualized environment.