Archive for AIX
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
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 performance but also rock solid security and near-continuous availability while [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
IBM Training Schedule for ANZ January 2009 – July 2009
The latest IBM Training schedule for the Australia and New Zealand region for the January 2009 to July 2009 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 [...]
AIX Version 6.1 Technology Level 2 now Available
The latest release of IBM AIX is now available. AIX 6.1 TL 2 (GA 14, November, 2008) brings with it the following enhancements over the previous Technology Level: IBM Support for new IBM UNIX® Systems IBM Power™ 560 Express 3.6 GHz IBM Power 570 4.4 GHz / 5.0 GHz IBM Power 570 32-core 4.2 GHz [...]
