Archive for AIX
GPFS v3.3.0.3 now available
Announcing the availability of the service level 3.3.0.3 for all GPFS v3.3 products.
The service level is available at:
GPFS download site
This service level addresses the below issues. This is not a definitive list as other minor corrections have been made which are not listed here.
* On x86_64 Linux when special encoding flag [...]
IBM PowerVM Active Memory Sharing
IBM PowerVM™ provides industrial-strength virtualization for Power Systems™ servers running AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems. PowerVM now features Active Memory Sharing, the technology that allows you to intelligently exchange memory between running partitions for increased optimization of physical memory resources. Active Memory Sharing enables the sharing of a pool of physical memory among [...]
AIX 6.1 Workload Partitions – ask us how…
If you are a systems administrator who is responsible for care and feeding of IBM® System p™ servers, you are probably familiar with virtualization and server consolidation using logical partitions (LPARs). Using the Hardware Management Console (HMC) or the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM), you can quickly define a new LPAR, install AIX® or Linux®, configure [...]
Port your Solaris applications to AIX 6.1 can help you reap the following benefits:
* Gain new market opportunities for your company by offering customers more choices, through leveraging IBM tools and resources for supporting new platforms
* Differentiate your application by taking advantage of advanced and innovative AIX features.
* Provide to your application not only flexibility and [...]
Moving from Solaris to AIX – Spectrum can assist or even do the migration for you…
The process of porting Solaris applications to the AIX environment sometimes can be accomplished with a simple recompile. However, at other times a successful port may require compilation, link changes or even code changes. Let’s examine some important considerations when migrating applications from Solaris to AIX.
Overview
Most applications are written in one or more high-level languages. [...]
IBM Power System Training for January – July 2010
The latest IBM Training schedule for the Australia and New Zealand region for the January 2010 to July 2010 period is now available.
IBM offers a wide range of technical education in the IT industry in Australia, as well as flexible
delivery options to meet your scheduling and budgeting needs. Curriculum & delivery – classroom or
remote lab [...]
PM for Power Systems data collector integrated into AIX
AIX (V6.1 TL4 and V5.3 TL11) now includes an integrated performance data collector in support of Performance Management (PM) for Power Systems. This agent automatically collects non-proprietary utilization and growth data at a partition level. At the client’s option, the collected data is automatically transmitted to and …[more]
AIX (V6.1 TL4 and V5.3 TL11) now includes [...]
AIX binary compatibility
Dear Power Systems client:
We listened and we have delivered for you, and in fact we hope you have been ecstatic with the recent announcements on the AIX® 6 and POWER6™ products. Not only can the new POWER6 servers run AIX V5.2, V5.3 and AIX V6.1—with binary compatibility for applications currently running on AIX V5.1, V5.2 [...]
AIX 6.1 – Upgrade to the latest now!
Highlights
Latest generation of IBM’s well-proven, scalable, open standards-based UNIX® operating system
Features for virtualization, security, availability and manageability designed to make AIX® 6 even more flexible, secure and available than previous versions
Built on IBM POWER6™ technology and virtualization to help deliver superior performance, increase system utilization and efficiency, provide for easy administration and reduce total costs
The [...]
Spectrum Uses SugarCRM on AIX 6
Spectrum Consulting has for some time been a user of the Open Source SugarCRM and have recently migrated this Open Source Software to a Virtualized AIX 6 partition using Virtualized I/O and Processors. The virtualized environment uses IBM PowerVM which enables the following advanced features:
Consolidate a diverse set of applications from multiple operating systems on [...]
