This book is intended for systems professionals who need to understand,
monitor and control the factors that affect AIX performance on their
IBM Power servers. It also include bonus' chapters on the recent
innovations of AIX 6.1, Linux on Power (LoP) performance and a special
chapter on running Oracle on AIX. This is an intermediate book on AIX
performance analysis and systems tuning. The material in this book
comes both from IBM sources and real-life experiences - which I have
had as a Unix professional supporting production systems for 20+ yrs
(almost ½ of them on AIX) ; in many capacities, for a broad range of
industries. As this book is not an introduction to Unix, prior
knowledge of Unix (particularly AIX) is recommended. The book will
cover tuning methodology, systems monitoring and performance tuning on
all subsystems, including; CPU, RAM and I/O (network and disk). As an
introduction, we'll review time-tested tuning and analysis methodology;
steps which will assist you throughout the tuning lifecycle. The
monitoring sections will discuss tools that will allow you to
immediately gain a foothold (taking quick & dirty snapshots on the
health of the system) onto your system and also discuss tools which
will help you collect historic data for the purpose of analyzing trends
and results. All the tools used in this book are either part of the
standard IBM AIX systems build or open source products written by folks
that work for IBM (I.E. nmon), and used widely in the field of battle.
