IBM Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales Certification Preparation Workshop

After completing this course, you should be able to:


Describe the benefits of the POWER9 processor architecture
Describe the IBM POWER9 processor‐based systems product family
Explain the reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features and benefits of IBM POWER9 processor‐based systems
Describe Power Enterprise Pools prerequisites, capabilities and benefits
Differentiate Capacity on Demand (CoD) offerings
Summarize the requirements and benefits of Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Simplified Remote Restart
Identify planning tools and information resources used when designing a solution
Differentiate memory optimization technologies
Identify resource sharing capabilities of Power Systems servers, including processors, memory, and I/O
Implement virtualization configurations including:

Virtual SCSI
Virtual Fibre Channel
Virtual Ethernet
Virtual Network Interface Controller (vNIC) and Shared‐Root I/O Virtualization (SR‐IOV)
Shared Ethernet Adapter
Shared processors

This course is for personnel who are preparing to take the exam to attain the IBM Certified Specialist – Power Systems Scale‐Up Technical Sales certification. More information about the certification is available at:

Students should already know the models and major capabilities of the IBM POWER9 processorbased

systems and have a good understanding of PowerVM and Virtual I/O Server features. The

PowerVM and VIOS skills can be obtained by taking the following course or with equivalent

experience:


AN30G ‐ Power Systems for AIX ‐ PowerVM I: Implementing Virtualization, which may be found here ->