SGI UV System Administration I

NOTE:  This course is specifically for customers who are using the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) based Altix UV Environment . The class is based on the SLES11 with the additional SGI Performance Suite software.

Target Audience:

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

Prerequisites:

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

Topics Covered:

• Overview of SGI Altix UV hardware
• SLES Linux Environment
• SGI Altix UV SLES11 installation
• SGI Performance Suite software installation
• SGI kernel modules
• Configure Boot Information
• Startup and Shutdown
• GPT partition table
• parted disk partitioning tool
• XFS filesystems (mkfs.xfs) and filesystem management
• XVM - SGI Volume Manager
• SGI XVM concat, stripe, and mirror filesystems
• Performance Co-Pilot
• SGI Numatools
• SGI Array Services
• Intel compiler and user module environment
• Linux Kernel Dump environment
• Linux crash command

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

• Plan and install SGI Performance Suite Software, SGI Software Foundation Software and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Software
• Configure Boot Information
• Startup and shut down the SGI 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)
• Install SGI specific kernel modules
• Install the Intel compiler environment modules
• Configure array services for SGI MPT applications
• Use taskset, dplace and cpusets to pin an application
• Use the Linux crash command to extract basic dump information
• Use the Linux kexec/kdump Kernel Dump feature