Instructor-led training (ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)
Price
USD $1,400
CAD $1,540
Course overview
Now that you have the AlphaServer GS system (Wildfire), how do you configure it to perform its best? This course introduces Wildfire architecture concepts before addressing performance and configuration issues. It includes guidelines, programming issues, and handling I/O. Students will get useful and practical examples of applying technical knowledge for the improvement of their systems.
Prerequisites
To get the most from this course, the student should be able to monitor and tune an HP Tru64 UNIX system.
Audience
This course is designed for advanced UNIX administration and support personnel.
Ways to save
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This course covers the latest enterprise systems and supports the Alpha/HP Tru64 UNIX level 2 ASE certification topics, kernel concepts, and advanced hardware capabilities.
Course outline
Wildfire concepts
Hardware
NUMA vs. SMP scaling
Hard partition requirements
Review of binary conversions
Sample hard partition setups
Wildfire hardware configuration for performance
Hardware configuration guidelines
QBB configuration guidelines
Memory configuration guidelines
CPU configuration guidelines
I/O configuration guidelines
Summary of hardware configuration Ü some case studies
Wildfire software configuration for performance
HP Tru64 UNIX operating system enhancements for NUMA
CPU scheduling
Process control
VM NUMA enhancements
I/O optimizations
Network optimizations
AdvFS integration with VM subsystem
Application programming interfaces
Examples
Wildfire configuration tools
Alpha configuration utility
TECHport configuration aids for GS systems
Wildfire configuration lab
Lab instructions
Case Study 1: AlphaOmega research
Case Study 2: Washington financials
Case Study 3: InterestRates storefront 5-9
Appendix A - miscellaneous examples and program sources
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