PowerCenter: Performance Tuning and Optimization

Instructor Led | Data Integration | 2 Days | Version 9.x

Course Overview

Learn how to best optimize the performance of Informatica PowerCenter through lecture and hands-on exercises. This course is designed for advanced PowerCenter developers and will introduce attendees to the various techniques and tools to perform tasks such as isolating and optimizing bottlenecks at various levels (source, transformation, target, session, and system), server sizing. This course will also cover partitions and grid in more detail.

Objectives

After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:

  • Describe the different types of potential bottlenecks that may affect PowerCenter’s performance
  • Describe how to isolate and optimize source, target, and engine bottlenecks
  • Apply best practices to PowerCenter mappings
  • Describe how to calculate memory used by a session and optimize session- level memory and transformation cache
  • Describe different partition types and guidelines for usage
  • Perform system optimization and server sizing
  • Understand various concepts on integration service on grid

Target Audience

  • Developer

Prerequisites

  • None
Agenda
Module 01: Performance Tuning Basics
  • Describe performance tuning methodology
  • Define Benchmarking
  • Thread Statistics and performance counters
  • Describe bottlenecks at various levels
  • Define optimization and scalability
Module 02: Bottlenecks
  • Identify source, target and mapping bottlenecks
  • Optimize source, target, mapping, and transformations
  • Mapping best practices
Module 03: Memory Optimization
  • Anatomy of a session
  • Session Memory calculation
  • Session-level memory optimization
  • Tune transformation caches
Module 04: Partitions
  • Partition Methodology
  • Partition types with use cases
  • Cache Partitioning
  • PowerCenter Smart Parallelism
Module 05: Server Sizing and System Optimization
  • Various methods for Sizing PowerCenter Server
  • Identify System Bottleneck
  • System Optimization – Windows/Unix
Module 06: Integration Service On Grid
  • Create and configure a Grid
  • Load Balancer & functionality
  • Workflow on Grid
  • Session on Grid
  • Dynamic Partitioning
  • Load balancer tracing


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