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Course description: Performance Tuning for Linux (ILO)

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Course code MZ200 Skill level Intermediate
Duration 4.0 days Delivery type Instructor Led - Online Training
(Hands-on labs)
Course type Public or Private on-site    
Public price USD $2,605.00 plus tax    

This course is designed to teach in-depth performance methodologies for Linux and z/VM systems needed to prevent and eliminate system bottlenecks. In addition, this class covers tuning strategies that help to increase system efficiency, and describes monitoring techniques used to analyze server performance. The information provided during this course applies to running enterprise Linux distributions on z/VM. The course includes lab exercises to reinforce what you learn during class.

There is also a classroom version of this course: Performance Tuning for Linux (ZL200)

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Training Paths that reference this course are:

  • z/VM and Linux on System z

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Special note

IBM Education Advantage Program eligibility:

  • Yes - IBM Education Pack - Online Account

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Audience

This intermediate course targets experienced Linux and z/VM system administrators and other IT professionals who are responsible for the performance and tuning of mainframe systems.

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Prerequisites

You should complete:

  • Installing, Configuring, and Servicing z/VM for Linux (ZV06)
  • Linux for System z Implementation (ZL10)

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Skills taught

  • Define IBM System z virtualization and server consolidation concepts
  • Identify performance bottlenecks at the hardware, operating system, and application levels
  • Eliminate memory, disk, processor and network bottlenecks
  • Describe tuning concepts and tasks
  • Use tuning tools to analyze and optimize z/VM and Linux performance
  • Define memory configuration for large applications (for example JVM and Oracle/DB2)

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Course outline

Day 1

  • (00:15) Welcome
  • (00:30) Unit 1: Server consolidation and virtualization overview
  • (00:30) Unit 2: Tuning concepts
  • (02:00) Unit 3: Monitoring tools
  • (01:15) Exercise 1: Enabling, configuring, and navigating through Performance Toolkit
  • (01:15) Unit 4: CPU resources
  • (00:45) Exercise 2: CPU resources

Day 2

  • (01:15) Unit 5: Tuning processor
  • (01:00) Exercise 3: Tuning processor
  • (01:15) Unit 6: Linux virtual memory concepts and configurations
  • (01:15) Unit 7: Tuning memory for z/VM Linux guests
  • (01:00) Exercise 4: Tuning memory
  • (00:45) Unit 8: Linux swap considerations

Day 3

  • (01:30) Unit 9: Memory configuration for large WebSphere applications
  • (01:30) Unit 10: Performance considerations for databases
  • (01:00) Exercise 5: Memory configuration for large applications
  • (01:15) Unit 11: Network consideration and tuning
  • (01:00) Exercise 6: Tuning network performance

Day 4

  • (01:15) Unit 12: z/VM storage considerations and tuning
  • (01:00) Exercise 7: z/VM storage performance tuning
  • (01:15) Unit 13: Disk performance considerations and tuning
  • (01:00) Exercise 8: Disk performance tuning
  • (01:30) Unit 14: Performance analysis techniques

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