IBM eServer Certification Study Guide : eServer p5 and pSeries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3.

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Certification overview -- 1.1 Certification requirements -- 1.1.1 Required prerequisite -- 1.1.2 Recommended prerequisites -- 1.1.3 Information and registration for the certification exam -- 1.1.4 Core requirements -- 1.2 Certification education courses -- Chapter 2. System planning and design -- 2.1 p5-570 -- 2.1.1 System specifications -- 2.1.2 Physical package -- 2.1.3 Minimum and optional features -- 2.1.4 Processor features -- 2.1.5 Memory features -- 2.1.6 Disks and media features -- 2.1.7 I/O drawers -- 2.1.8 Architecture and technical overview -- 2.1.9 Dynamic logical partitioning -- 2.1.10 Boot process -- 2.1.11 Operating system requirements -- 2.1.12 Capacity on Demand -- 2.2 p5-575 -- 2.2.1 System specifications -- 2.2.2 Physical package -- 2.2.3 Minimum system configuration -- 2.2.4 Memory -- 2.2.5 Logical partitioning -- 2.2.6 Advanced POWER Virtualization and Partition Load Manager -- 2.2.7 System control -- 2.2.8 I/O drawers -- 2.2.9 Disks, boot devices, and media devices -- 2.2.10 PCI-X slots and adapters -- 2.2.11 Software requirements -- 2.2.12 For the required Hardware Management Console -- 2.3 p5-590 and p5-595 -- 2.3.1 Model abstract for 9119-590 and 9119-595 -- 2.3.2 System frames -- 2.3.3 Installation planning -- 2.3.4 Minimum and optional features -- 2.3.5 Processor features -- 2.3.6 Operating system support -- 2.3.7 Memory subsystem -- 2.3.8 Internal I/O subsystem -- 2.3.9 Disks and boot devices -- 2.3.10 Media options -- 2.3.11 PCI-X slots and adapters -- 2.3.12 Internal storage -- 2.4 Simultaneous multithreading -- 2.4.1 Enhanced simultaneous multithreading features -- 2.4.2 Single threading operation -- 2.4.3 Benefits of simultaneous multithreading.

2.5 POWER Hypervisor -- 2.5.1 Virtual SCSI -- 2.5.2 Virtual Ethernet -- 2.5.3 Virtual (TTY) console -- 2.6 Workload and partition management -- 2.6.1 Partition Load Manager -- 2.6.2 IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager -- 2.6.3 AIX Workload Manager -- 2.6.4 Enterprise Workload Manager -- 2.7 Guidelines for dynamic LPAR and virtualization -- 2.8 Firmware -- 2.8.1 Server firmware -- 2.8.2 Power subsystem firmware -- 2.8.3 Platform initial program load -- 2.9 Capacity on Demand -- 2.9.1 Types of Capacity on Demand -- Chapter 3. System partitioning and operating system installation -- 3.1 Initial system configuration -- 3.1.1 Advanced System Management Interface -- 3.1.2 System Management Services -- 3.2 Basic system management tasks (HMC) -- 3.2.1 Managing the system -- 3.2.2 Rebuilding the managed system -- 3.2.3 Managing a frame and resources connected to the HMC -- 3.3 Logical partitioning of a system -- 3.3.1 Types of partitions -- 3.3.2 Managing a partitioned system -- 3.3.3 Partition profiles -- 3.3.4 System profiles -- 3.3.5 Overall requirements for partitioning -- 3.4 LPAR resource administration -- 3.4.1 Assignable resources for logical partitioning -- 3.4.2 Operating states -- 3.4.3 Creating logical partitions -- 3.4.4 Activating partitions -- 3.4.5 Deleting partitions -- 3.4.6 Partition startup and shutdown -- 3.4.7 Setting up service authority -- 3.4.8 Changing default partition profiles -- 3.4.9 Viewing system profile properties -- 3.4.10 Modifying system profile properties -- 3.5 Installation of the operating system into a partition -- 3.5.1 Operating system capability and configuration -- 3.5.2 Recommended configuration for a basic AIX 5L installation -- 3.5.3 Disks, boot devices, and media devices -- 3.5.4 Overview of the AIX 5L installation process -- 3.5.5 Introduction to Network Installation Management.

3.5.6 Installing a partition using alternate disk installation -- 3.5.7 Using a CD-ROM to manually install a partition -- 3.5.8 Choosing the 64-bit or 32-bit kernel on installation -- 3.5.9 Creating a system backup -- 3.6 Dynamic LPAR operation -- 3.6.1 Dynamically adding resources to a partition -- 3.6.2 Dynamically moving resources between partitions -- 3.6.3 Dynamically removing resources from a partition -- Chapter 4. Hardware management -- 4.1 HMC -- 4.1.1 Local HMC -- 4.1.2 Remote HMC -- 4.1.3 Redundant HMC -- 4.1.4 Web-based System Manager Remote Client -- 4.1.5 HMC connectivity -- 4.1.6 HMC code -- 4.2 Service applications -- 4.2.1 Electronic Service Agent -- 4.2.2 Service Focal Point -- 4.2.3 Licensed Internal Code maintenance -- 4.3 LPAR Validation Tool -- Chapter 5. Ongoing support -- 5.1 Perform preventative hardware maintenance -- 5.2 Hardware performance -- 5.2.1 Memory bandwidth -- 5.2.2 I/O bandwidth -- 5.3 AIX 5L performance monitoring -- 5.3.1 CPU analysis and tuning -- 5.3.2 Performance considerations for POWER5-based systems -- 5.3.3 Memory analysis and tuning -- 5.3.4 The nmon tool -- 5.3.5 Performance Toolbox for AIX -- 5.3.6 LoadLeveler for AIX -- 5.4 Manage system software updates -- 5.4.1 Software packaging -- 5.4.2 AIX 5L Version 5.3 installation pack -- 5.4.3 Service Update Management Assistant -- 5.4.4 System documentation -- 5.5 Linux introduction -- 5.5.1 Planning for Linux -- 5.5.2 Minimum configuration requirements for a Linux partition -- 5.5.3 Shared processor support for Linux logical partitions -- 5.5.4 Installing a Linux distribution -- 5.5.5 Virtual I/O Server and Linux -- 5.5.6 Dynamically managing physical I/O devices and slots on Linux -- 5.6 Basic problem determination -- 5.6.1 Error analyzing -- 5.6.2 Managing the error log -- 5.6.3 Capturing service data -- 5.7 Logical volume management.

5.7.1 LVM introduction -- 5.7.2 Physical volume management -- 5.7.3 Adding a physical disk -- 5.7.4 Disk replacement procedure -- 5.7.5 Volume group management -- 5.7.6 Logical volumes and file systems -- 5.8 Planning and performing backup and recovery -- 5.8.1 System backup (mksysb) -- 5.8.2 System recovery methods -- 5.8.3 Cloning a system backup -- 5.8.4 Alternate disk installation -- 5.8.5 NIM client (mksysb installation) -- 5.8.6 Using NIM with alternate disk install -- 5.8.7 Using tape or CD/DVD-R -- 5.8.8 Non-root volume group backup and recovery -- 5.8.9 The savevg command -- 5.8.10 Disaster recovery (business continuity) -- Chapter 6. Advanced POWER Virtualization -- 6.1 Overview of Advanced POWER Virtualization -- 6.2 Micro-Partitioning -- 6.2.1 Shared processor partitions -- 6.2.2 Shared pool overview -- 6.3 Virtual networking -- 6.3.1 Virtual LAN (VLAN) -- 6.3.2 Virtual Ethernet adapter -- 6.3.3 Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) -- 6.3.4 Virtual networking example -- 6.4 Virtual I/O Server -- 6.4.1 Overview of the Virtual I/O Server -- 6.4.2 Virtual SCSI -- 6.4.3 Installing the Virtual I/O Server -- 6.4.4 Backup and maintenance -- 6.4.5 Availability of the Virtual I/O Server partition -- 6.5 Partition Load Manager -- 6.5.1 Memory management -- 6.5.2 Processor management -- 6.5.3 Limitations and considerations -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.