SGI UV System Administration - based on Red Hat

This course provides the experienced Linux user with the skills and information needed to administer the SGI Altix UV family of systems. Lab exercises are included to prepare students for the actual work environment.

 ** NOTE ** This course is specifically for customers who are using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on SGI Altix UV Equipment . The class is based on the RHEL6 with the additional SGI Performance Suite software

Target Audience:

• Experienced Linux user who wish to administer an SGI Altix UV family system

Prerequisites:

• Training and experience administering a Linux system
• Completion of Introduction to Linux and Linux System Administration courses

Topics Covered:

• Overview of SGI Altix UV hardware
• RHEL linux environment
• SGI Altix UV RHEL6 installation
• SGI Performance Suite software installation
• SGI kernel modules
• Configure Boot Information
• Startup and Shutdown
• GPT partition table
• parted disk partitioning tool
• XFS filesystems (mkfd.xfs) and filesystem management
• XVM - SGI Volume Manager
• SGI XVM concat, stripe, and mirror filesystems
• Performance Co-Pilot
• SGI Embedded Support Partner
• SGI Numatools
• SGI Array Services
• Intel compiler and user module environment

Objectives - Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Plan and install SGI Performance Suite Software, SGI Software Foundation Software and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Software
• Configure boot options
• Startup and shut down the Altix UV system
• Partition and build a system disk
• Build multipartition (concat, stripe, mirror) filesystems with SGI XVM
• Setup and use Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
• Setup and use Embedded Support Partner (ESP)
• Install SGI specific kernel modules
• Install the Intel compiler environment modules
• Configure array services for SGI MPT applications
• Use taskset, dplace and cpusets to in an application