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WLM—Understanding Workload Manager
3 days

This class is a lecture-workshop for experienced systems programmers and performance analysts with a focus on WLM controls and operation. The course will explore the decision-making processes employed by WLM and how they can be monitored and evaluated.

Audience—This class is intended for experienced systems programmers and performance analysts with a basic understanding of WLM definitions.

Topics

Getting Started:
Setting up a service definition, Defining a service policy
Using policy overrides
Defining workloads
Service class definitions:
Importance levels
Execution velocity
Response time goals
Performance Index
Classification rules
Setting exception conditions
Resource groups
CPU/storage critical settings
Service coefficients and options
Service coefficients
I/O priority management
Dynamic alias management
Applications environment
Specifying and managing application environments
Server limits for application environment
Scheduling environments
Specifying scheduling environments
Managing resource states
WLM managed initiators
Intelligent Resource Director
LPAR CPU Management
Dynamic Channel Path Management
Channel Subsystem Priority Queuing
Workload licensing limits
SMF type 99 records

Our experts can cover any and all topics—topics can be added or deleted per Client’s needs
Workstations are needed for this session.