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 managing energy and cooling costs.
If you are looking into options for porting your Solaris solutions to AIX Version 6.1 Spectrum has the expertise and experience to translate your needs and your customers needs into proven cost-saving server consolidation solutions, thereby minimizing your total cost of ownership. These advantages can make your solutions more attractive to potential customers, exposing your business to even wider markets.
The dramatic performance of IBM Power Architecture™ technology allows you to run more applications on less hardware than ever before.AIX Version 6.1 includes a large set of features for virtualization, security, availability and manageability. It is also built to fully leverage IBM POWER6™ technology and virtualization to help deliver superior performance, increase system utilization and efficiency, provide for easy administration and reduce total costs.
Enhanced virtualization features
Workload Partitions
AIX 6 introduces a new, software-based, virtualization approach called Workload Partitions (WPAR) that complements the existing IBM System Logical Partitions by reducing the number of operating system images that have to be managed when consolidating workloads. WPARs enable the system administrator to consolidate multiple applications inside of a single running instance of AIX 6. Each WPAR can be separately administered from other WPARs in the system, including separate security and root level user.
Live Application Mobility
Workload Partitions can also be moved from one system to another without restarting the application or causing significant disruption to the application end user. This capability, called “Live Application Mobility” will be enabled though a separately offered licensed program product, the Workload Partitions Manager.
Security Features
Role Based Access Control
Provides improved security and manageability by allowing administrators to grant authorization for management of specific AIX resources to users other than root by associating those resources with a role that is then associated with a particular system user. Role Based Access Control can also be used to associate specific management privileges with programs, which can reduce the need for run those programs under the root user or via setuid.
Trusted AIX
Trusted AIX extends the AIX 6.1 security capabilities by integrating compartmentalized, multi-level security into the base operating system. Trusted AIX is implemented as an installation option that can provide the highest levels of compartmentalized security to meet critical security requirements.
Encrypting filesystem
The IBM Journaled Filesystem Extended (JFS2) adds even greater data security with the capability to encrypt the data in a filesystem. Clients can select from a number of different encryption algorithms. The encrypted data can be backed up in encrypted format, reducing the risk of data being compromised if backup media is lost or stolen. The encrypting filesystem can even prevent the compromise of data even to root level users.
AIX Security Expert LDAP integration
The AIX Security Expert was provides you with the capability to manage more than 300 system security settings from a single interface. The AIX Security Expert has been enhanced in AIX 6 with an option to store security templates directly in a Lightweight Directory Protocol (LDAP) directory?simplifying implementation of a consistent security across an entire enterprise.
Secure by Default installation option
The AIX 6 installation process will offer a new option, Secure by Default that enables only the minimal number of system and network services to provide the maximum amount of security. Secure by Default works best when used in conjunction with the AIX Security Expert to tightly control the security configuration of each system.
Availability and Manageability Features
Kernel support for POWER6 Storage Key
This AIX 6 feature brings a mainframe-inspired reliability capability to the UNIX market for the first time. Enabled by the IBM POWER6™ processor, Storage Keys can reduce the number of intermittent outages associated with undetected memory overlays inside the AIX kernel.
Concurrent AIX kernel update
Concurrent AIX updates provides a new capability to deliver some kernel updates as Interim Fixes that will not require a system reboot to put into effect. This can reduce the number of unplanned outages required to maintain a secure, reliable system.
Dynamic tracing
AIX 6 provides a new dynamic tracing capability that can simplify debugging complex system or application code. This dynamic tracing facility will be introduced via a new tracing command, probevue, that allows a developer or system administrator to dynamically insert trace breakpoints in existing code without having to recompile the code.
Enhanced software first failure data capture
One of the key innovations used to improve the reliability, availability and serviceability of the AIX OS is the introduction of First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) technology. FFDC, a concept borrowed from the mainframe, gathers diagnostic information about problems at the time the problem occurs-dramatically reducing the need to recreate the problem (and impact performance and availability) at a later time just to generate diagnostic information.
Dynamic Variable Page Size Support
POWER6 introduced the concept of mixed page sizes (4 KB ? 64 KB page sizes) within a single segment. AIX 6 takes advantage of this new hardware capability to combine the conservative memory usage aspects of the 4 KB page size in sparsely referenced memory regions with the performance benefits of the 64 KB page size in densely referenced memory regions, and it does so automatically without user intervention.
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.
AIX Run Time Expert
In AIX TL4 (scheduled release 4Q09) performance and tuning will become much easier for administrators. AIX Run Time expert will simplify management of most AIX tuning and configuration settings by offering out-of-the box workload configuration settings. In addition, you will have the option to create or provide your own profile that can be loaded and shared between systems.
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