Si3 Consulting Services guide our valued customers to comprehend their IT requirement by aligning it with their business needs. Si3 Professional Services consultants engage with customers to undertake assignments that deliver enterprise architectures, infrastructure models, enterprise application models, IT governance policies and guidelines, performance and productivity benchmarks, skills development and training, and implementation methodologies. They help customers achieve value from their IT investments using best practices from their specific and related industries.
AIX Health Check and Systems Optimization Services for IBM System p
and POWER Servers
 Today every organization operate in a global economy and must rely increasingly on IT infrastructures. They also have a growing need to control cost-to-income ratios by optimizing and adjusting IT costs. Appropriate reengineering of IT infrastructure can unleash important reserves of productivity and even prepare an enterprise for future cycles and unexpectedly adverse conditions.
The objective of this offering is to study existing AIX systems setup running mission critical applications at client’s Datacenter under a standalone or cluster environment and identify performance related bottlenecks. At the end of this service, Si3 technical cponsultants will compile a summary based on certain findings that will help client to optimize the systems to a satisfactory level.
At the end of this service, a detailed report will be submitted in the form of findings with recommendations and suggestions.
Scope of Services :
Following are services to be delivered during this exercise.
- Study System wide critical logs
- Study existing system performance and identify bottlenecks
- Study users and systems related Securities
- Ways to increase systems availability
- Identifying operating system consistency
- Study existing filesystems integrity
- Study system dump utilization and gaps
- Study memory leakage problems
- AIX kernel parameters
- Paging space issues
- AIX TCP/IP in general
- Study existing System backup and restore procedures
Phases of Service Activity :
Conduct a planning session with your representatives to gather basis data about your system configuration.
- Create a separate AIX JFS filesystem and start collecting all the necessary snapshots.
- Record changes after executing different AIX tools and commands under the filesystem in a separate directory.
- Present summary to client’s senior executive management with possible suggestions and recommendations.
- Customer will contact IBM and take their necessary support to implement for the findings and recommendations identified during this services that may includes the installation of AIX fixes, firmwares, microcodes, etc.
- Provide up to two of your personnel with basic skills instruction on the administrative tasks performed during this services.
AIX Systems Performance Monitoring and Tuning Services
Business challenges :
Everyone who uses a computer has an opinion about its performance. Unfortunately, those opinions are often based on oversimplified ideas about the dynamics of program execution. Uninformed intuition can lead to expensive and inaccurate guesses about the capacity of a system and the solutions to the perceived performance problems.
Performance management, from a system management point of view, is usually concentrated on the allocation of existing resources, but also includes allocation of additional resources and establishment of system policies. Therefore, performance tuning can be defined as the application and allocation of resources to best meet the defined requirements and goals.
What this offering all about :
The objective of this offering is to study existing AIX systems setup running mission critical applications at client’s Datacenter under a standalone, cluster or LPAR environment and identify performance related bottlenecks. At the end of this service, Si3 technical experts will compile a summary based on certain findings that will help client to optimize the systems to a satisfactory level.
Before starting this exercise, Si3 AIX technical experts will execute a planning session with client’s IT team to gather initial data on the installed systems
- CPU Performance Monitoring:
Collect all the necessary snapshots causing systems bottlenecks and identify the root cause.
- Memory Performance Monitoring:
Record all processes consuming memory resources followed by recommendations that help in fine tune the overall systems performance.
- I/O Bounding:
Capture all traces causing this bottleneck by running various systems tools and commands.
- Client with then need to contact IBM and take their necessary support to implement Si3 findings and recommendations that includes the installation of AIX fixes, firmwares, microcodes, etc.
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