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Queue depth setting in a Versioned WPAR on AIX
One of my customers was configuring a new AIX 5.3 Versioned WPAR when they came across a very interesting issue. I thought I’d share the experience here, just in case anyone else comes across the problem. We configured the VWPAR to host an old application. The setup was relatively straight forward, restore the AIX 5.3 mksysb into the VWPAR and export the data disk from the Global into the VWPAR, import the volume group and mount the file systems. Job done! However, we noticed some fairly poor performance during application load... [More]
Tags:  disk depth wpar performance aix versioned io queue chris vwpar gibson |
The new VIOS performance advisor tool
I updated my
lab VIOS to the latest fix pack ( V2.2.2.1 )
this week and thought I’d try the new VIOS part command. This new command is an improved version of the existing vios_advisor tool. The major difference
between the two is the fact that the new tool is now included with VIOS code
and will be updated via new VIOS fix packs. The following link has some
information on using the command: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/p7hcg/part.htm This new
tool “Provides performance reports with
suggestions... [More]
Tags:  2.2.2.1 vios power7 advisor reporting vios_advisor aix chris_gibson tool part performance lpar ioslevel |