IBM’s Complimentary Seminar:
Introduction to AIX on Power Systems

AIX is increasingly becoming the operating system of choice by businesses wanting a reliable, secure and simplified virtualised computing environment using energy efficient and scalable Power Systems™ hardware.
Take a “dive” into AIX with this one day, no-charge overview and see for yourself.

This seminar is also a taster for the five day class “AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals”. To see a full list of topics for the 5 day class see AN14NZ for New Zealand.

Objectives and target audience
Be able to describe the essential components of AIX, including the Object Data Manager (ODM), Systems Management Interface Tool (SMIT), and logical Volume Manager (LVM). Audience includes anyone responsible for the administration of Unix or Linux systems and wanting a quick overview of AIX and IBM Power Systems. Unix skills are preferable, but not essential. This course is structured as seminar format; there is no hands-on.

Topics

  • Introduction to AIX and IBM Power Systems
  • AIX system administration tools
  • CPU virtualisation, and Multiple Shared Processor Pools
  • Data managed by the Object Data Manager (ODM)
  • I/O virtualisation
  • System Resource Controller
  • Memory virtualisation
  • The topas command
  • Active Memory Sharing
  • AIX Partition activation
  • Active Memory Expansion
  • AIX Software installation and maintenance
  • Virtualisation architecture
  • Network Installation Manager (NIM) overview
  • Workload Partitions (WPAR)
  • AIX system configuration and devices
  • Application Mobility
  • Printing subsystem
  • TCP/IP networking
  • Logical Volume Manager (LVM) components
  • Paging space
  • Journaled File Systems (JFS)
  • mksysb – make a system boot image

Wellington – 01 November 2011
Auckland – 02 November 2011

Auckland venue: Cliftons, Level 2, 45 Queen St, Auckland
Wellington venue:Level 28, The Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street, Wellington

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    Douglas Pharmaceuticals

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