The aim of this IBM Redbooks publication is to provide a technical reference for IT system administrators in organizations that are considering a migration from Sun Solaris to IBM AIX 5L-based systems. This book presents a system administrator view of the technical differences that exist and the methods that are necessary to complete a successful migration to AIX 5L-based systems.

This book is designed primarily as a reference for experienced Sun Solaris 8 or 9 system administrators who will be working with AIX 5L. This book is not an AIX 5L administration how-to book for system administrators who are beginners, but rather a guide for experienced administrators who have to translate a given Solaris system administration task to AIX 5L.

Part 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. AIX 5L and Solaris: Approaches to administration

Part 2. System administration differences

Chapter 2. Introduction to IBM System p

Chapter 3. Operating system installation

Chapter 4. Disks and file systems

Chapter 5. Software management

Chapter 6. Device management

Chapter 7. Network services

Chapter 8. Boot and system initialization

Chapter 9. Managing system resources

Chapter 10. Printing services

Chapter 11. Users and groups

Chapter 12. Monitoring and performance

Chapter 13. Security and hardening

Chapter 14. Backup and restore

Chapter 15. High availability and clustering overview

Chapter 16. Troubleshooting

Appendix A. Tasks reference

Appendix B. Quick reference: Comparable commands and configuration files

Appendix C. AIX 5L Object Data Manager