Performance Documentation

Here is a starter pack that you started in understanding AIX performance. Sorry but there is no short cuts to learning performance skills.

Doc-Type	Title	Comments
PDF document	IBM Power Systems Performance Report	All the official performance numbers and industry benchmarks for current and older hardware.
Web Article	AIX 5 performance series: CPU monitoring and tuning	CPU bottlenecks and improving performance
Redbook	Understanding IBM pSeries Performance and Sizing	First port of call for learning AIX Performance
Redbook	Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM eServer p5 Servers: Architecture and Performance Considerations	IBM p5 Performance Considerations on POWER5 Architecture, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual SCSI, Virtual Ethernet and PLM Implementation
Redbook	Database Performance on AIX in the DB2 UDB and Oracle Environments	Excellent for tuning databases on top of AIX
Redbook	AIX 5L Performance Tools Handbook	Look here before reading the manuals
AIX Online Manual	The AIX Performance Management Guide	Very good base information - good luck finding it in Info Center but it is there somewhere Here is an early version of the Guide (for AIX V5.1.)
Web Article	Setting up AIX Workload Manager in 30 minutes	Excellent starter pack for WLM
Web Article	Methods for Detecting Memory Leaks in AIX Systems	Provides tools and techniques that can be used to isolate a memory leak in AIX process/application.
Web Article	VMM Tuning Tip: Protecting Computational Memory	This document provides guidance to tune the VMM to protect computational memory. How to tune maxclient%, maxperm%, lru_file_repage, strict_maxperm and strict_maxclient.
Web Article	Understanding DIO & CIO	This document provides information on DIO and CIO, and provides tools to assistance in detecting problems with CIO and DIO.
Web Article	Understanding Processor Utilization on POWER Systems - AIX	Article explains how the processor utilization is calculated and need to be interpreted on POWER 5, 6 and 7 architectures
Word document	P7 Virtualization Best Practice	This document is intended to address POWER7 PowerVM best practices to attain best LPAR performance.This document should be used in conjunction with other PowerVM documents.

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