TCP/IP Performance Tuning for Skytap on Azure IBM Power LPARs

This white paper discusses common best practices for tuning IBM Power IBM i and AIX workloads for Skytap on Azure (SOA). One of the biggest challenges organizations have when migrating and running Power workloads in SOA is tuning the TCP/IP stack for both the local (within a SOA) environment and externally either between on-premises and SOA, or between SOA deployments in different SOA regions. This article makes several references to general Azure tuning techniques as well as those from IBM for AIX and IBM i.