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Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been added to a POWER7 system, and the administrator would like to migrate filesystems with high I/O activity to the SSDs. What TWO options or commands will assist the…

The correct answer is C. filemon D. Hot File Detection. filemon and Hot File Detection are the AIX tools designed to identify files and filesystems with the highest I/O activity for workload migration decisions.

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Question

Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been added to a POWER7 system, and the administrator would like to migrate filesystems with high I/O activity to the SSDs. What TWO options or commands will assist the administrator with identifying filesystem activity? (Select 2)

Options

  • Asvmon
  • Btprof
  • Cfilemon
  • DHot File Detection
  • Efileplace

How the community answered

(21 responses)
  • A
    10% (2)
  • B
    14% (3)
  • C
    71% (15)
  • E
    5% (1)

Why each option

filemon and Hot File Detection are the AIX tools designed to identify files and filesystems with the highest I/O activity for workload migration decisions.

Asvmon

svmon reports virtual memory usage and paging activity rather than file system I/O patterns, so it does not help identify high-I/O filesystems.

Btprof

tprof is a CPU profiling tool that samples where processes spend execution time and does not report file system or disk I/O metrics.

CfilemonCorrect

filemon is an AIX performance monitoring tool that captures detailed I/O statistics at the file, logical volume, and physical volume level in real time. It identifies which specific files and filesystems generate the most I/O activity, making it directly suited for finding high-activity candidates to migrate to SSD storage.

DHot File DetectionCorrect

Hot File Detection is a built-in AIX feature integrated with the JFS2 filesystem that automatically tracks files with high access frequency over time. It generates reports identifying the most heavily accessed files on a filesystem, giving administrators direct guidance on which data should be migrated to faster SSD storage to maximize I/O performance.

Efileplace

fileplace displays the physical disk block locations of a file's data on disk, showing placement rather than access frequency or I/O activity levels.

Concept tested: AIX tools for identifying high I/O filesystem activity

Source: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=f-filemon-command

Topics

#filemon#Hot File Detection#filesystem I/O#SSD migration

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