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Performance Management Services for AIX in a Partitioned Environment
12 November 2002, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper verifies the use of Performance Management Services for AIX (PM/AIX) in a partitioned environment. The partitioned environment is an environment that allows you to run multiple operating system instances (AIX 5L Version 5.1 and Version 5.2 and Linux 1 are supported), in partitions on the single partitioning-capable IBM eServer pSeries server at a time.
Installing Tivoli System Automation for High Availability of DB2 UDB BCU on AIX
13 February 2007, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper documents an installation and configuration of IBM Tivoli® System Automation on IBM AIX® to provide high availability for a DB2® Universal Database™ (UDB) Balanced Configuration Unit (BCU). It provides the information that is needed to enable high availability quickly for an AIX DB2 environment. It is of special interest to those who intend to provide high availability for a ...
AIX 5L on the IBM System i Platform: Implementation Guide
09 June 2009, Redbooks
On the IBM® System i® platform, you can run native AIX® 5L™ with its own kernel (versus current the PASE SLIC kernel) in a logical partition (LPAR). This option provides another alternative to consolidate AIX 5L applications and other UNIX®-based applications, running in a separate IBM eServer™ pSeries® system or other UNIX system, onto a single System i platform. With the new version of the ...
IBM AIX Enterprise Edition System Administration Guide
11 October 2010, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides AIX® Systems Administrators a broad understanding of the new features and products that make up the AIX Enterprise Edition offering. It will help you design or create a solution to maximize efficiencies and help organizations get the most from their Power Systems™ platform. AIX Enterprise Edition includes all the features of AIX with additional ...
AIX V6 Advanced Security Features Introduction and Configuration
26 August 2013, Redbooks
AIX Version 6.1 provides many significant new security technologies and security enhancements. The purpose of this IBM Redbooks publication is to highlight and explain the security features at the conceptual level, as well as provide practical examples of how they may be implemented. Some features are extensions of features made available in prior AIX releases, and some are new features ...
IBM AIX Enhancements and Modernization
13 May 2020, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM AIX® operating system (OS) layout capabilities, distinct features, system installation, and maintenance, which includes AIX security, trusted environment, and compliance integration, with the benefits of IBM Power Virtualization Management (PowerVM®) and IBM Power Virtualization Center (IBM PowerVC), which includes cloud ...
Running IBM WebSphere Application Server on System p and AIX: Optimization and Best Practices
01 October 2008, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication describes how to run the IBM Java Virtual Machine for AIX and WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on IBM System p and the AIX 5L Operating Systems. In terms of provisioning, tuning and maintenance, it consolidates information from all of these areas into a single resource and explains how you can implement, tune, and utilize the unique features of the IBM POWER Systems ...
AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Edition
29 August 2005, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on the differences introduced in AIX 5L Version 5.3 when compared to AIX 5L Version 5.2. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments. AIX 5L Version 5.3 introduces many new features, including NFS Version 4 and Advanced Accounting, and exploits ...
IBM AIX Version 7.1 Differences Guide
25 February 2011, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on the enhancements to IBM AIX® Version 7.1 Standard Edition. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments. AIX Version 7.1 introduces many new features, including: - Domain Role Based Access Control - Workload Partition enhancements - Topas ...
Introduction to Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1
15 November 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Red paper books publication presents Workload Partitions (WPARs), a set of completely new software-based system virtualization features introduced in IBM AIX Version 6.1. Adding WPARs to the AIX operating system provides a new level of system virtualization capability. WPARs complement the already existing AIX and System p virtualization features, by allowing: - The partitioning of ...
IBM AIX Continuous Availability Features
09 June 2008, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper describes the continuous availability features of AIX Version 6, Release 1. It also addresses and defines the terms Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) as used in an IT infrastructure. It touches on the global availability picture for an IT environment in order to better clarify and explain how AIX can improve that availability. The paper is intended for AIX ...
Introducing VERITAS Foundation Suite for AIX
07 December 2006, Redbooks
VERITAS Software products, such as VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and VERITAS File System (VxFS), are popular on other UNIX platforms, and VERITAS announced these products for AIX in the early of May 2002. VERITAS Foundation Suite for AIX includes VERITAS Volume Manager for AIX and VERITAS File System for AIX. These products will be useful for people who are familiar with the same products on ...
AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Addendum
27 April 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on the differences introduced in AIX 5L Version 5.3 since the initial AIX 5L Version 5.3 release. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments. Since AIX 5L Version 5.3 was introduced, many new features including JFS2, LDAP, trace and debug, ...
Printing for Fun and Profit under AIX 5L
06 March 2005, Redbooks
The introduction of AIX 5L demonstrates IBM’s commitment to the open model of computing. The addition of the System V Release 4 print subsystem in this release of AIX is just one of the many ways that IBM demonstrates this commitment. Many new functions have been introduced in this latest release of AIX. In AIX 5L, IBM includes both the traditional AIX print subsystem, which we will call the ...
AIX 5L Practical Performance Tools and Tuning Guide
12 March 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication incorporates the latest AIX 5L performance and tuning tools. It is a comprehensive guide about the performance monitoring and tuning tools that are provided with AIX 5L Version 5.3, and it is the ultimate guide for system administrators and support professionals who want to efficiently use the AIX performance monitoring and tuning tools and understand how to ...
IBM AIX 5L Reference for HP-UX System Administrators
26 November 2007, Redbooks
The AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.2, SG24-5765-02, and AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3, SG24-7463-00, are excellent references for learning about AIX 5L. No matter what your skill level of UNIX, you will be able to use the AIX 5L Differences Guides as a starting point into many of the newest features of AIX 5L. This IBM Redbooks publication concentrates on providing experienced ...
Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1
29 December 2008, Redbooks
Workload partition functionality, originally introduced in 2007 with the release of IBM AIX Version 6, is a strategic component of the IBM AIX Operating System. With the release of AIX V6.1 TL2 in November 2008, both the core functionality and features related to managing workload partitions have been improved and expanded. This IBM Redbooks publication provides an updated introduction and ...
IBM AIX and Enterprise Cloud Solutions
28 June 2022, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper® publication is a guide to IBM AIX and Enterprise Cloud Solutions. AIX has a history of more than 35 years. It enables enterprise clients to run their business applications on IBM Power servers. With the passage of time, it is always upgraded with new features and technology (such as virtualization, high availability, security, and private and public clouds) to meet industry ...
Integrating AIX into Heterogeneous LDAP Environments
28 November 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is a technical planning reference for IT organizations that are adding AIX 5L clients to an existing LDAP authentication and user management environment. It presents integration scenarios for the AIX 5L LDAP client with IBM Tivoli Directory Server, the Sun ONE Directory Server, and Microsoft Active Directory. The sample integration scenarios can be used as a road ...
AIX Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: Introduction and Concepts
26 February 2013, Redbooks
LVM: Logical Volume Manager. What is its role in the AIX operating System? How does it perform this function? Its role is to control disk resources by mapping data between a more simple and flexible logical view of storage space and the actual physical disks. How it performs this function is a topic vast enough to fill two books. This first volume, AIX Logical Volume Manager, from A to Z: ...
05 August 2004, Redpaper
The scalability performance of several critical bioinformatics applications, including BLAST, FASTA, Smith-Waterman, HMMER, Mascot and ICED, was evaluated on AIX 5.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM eServer pSeries. These applications are either threaded or OpenMP-enabled parallel implementations. The comparison was conducted on the same LPAR of a p690 with 16 CPUs. The results ...
Case Study: AIX and WebSphere in an Enterprise Infrastructure
11 September 2008, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper presents a technical case study describing, in detail, what a realistic enterprise-level application and system architecture would look like for an environment that provides AIX and Websphere-hosted applications that are integrated with Microsoft Active Directory-based authentication and directory services. We recommend that readers of this paper also become familiar with the ...
07 June 2001, Redbooks
Effectively managing system resources in growing UNIX server environments has become a critical task. Each workload on the server must be assured the appropriate amount of system resources without penalizing mission-critical applications. AIX 5L Workload Manager provides a great set of tools and functionalities to efficiently accomplish this. This IBM IBM Redbooks publication exploits the ...
Multitenant Utility Computing on IBM Power Systems Running AIX
18 February 2009, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication presents concepts, considerations, and high level deployment examples for technical professionals who design and operate multitenant utility computing environments hosted on IBM System p® and IBM AIX® Enterprise Edition. AIX Enterprise Edition brings together IBM enterprise management capabilities from Power Systems™, IBM AIX, and Tivoli® Software to provide a ...
Native GPFS Benchmarks in an Integrated p690/AIX and x335/Linux Environment
17 February 2005, Redpaper
A series of benchmark tests were completed during September 4 - 6, 2004, at the IBM Benchmarking Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. The primary goal of these tests was to evaluate GPFS performance for HPC applications in a mixed p690/AIX and x335/Linux environment. A secondary goal was to assess how well GPFS scales by adding additional storage controllers.
AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.2 Edition
29 March 2006, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on the differences introduced in AIX 5L through Version 5.2 when compared to AIX Version 4.3.3. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments. AIX 5L introduces many new features, including Linux and System V affinity, dynamic LPAR, multipath I/O, ...
IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration
06 December 2004, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the certification exam to achieve: IBM eServer Certified Specialist - pSeries AIX System Administration. The system administration certification validates a broad scope of AIX administration skills and the ability to perform general AIX software system maintenance. This book helps AIX ...
IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Support
06 December 2004, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the certification exam to achieve: IBM eServer Certified Specialist - pSeries AIX System Support. The system support certification validates a broad scope of AIX problem determination and resolution skills and the ability to perform general AIX software system maintenance. This book helps AIX ...
Sun Solaris to IBM AIX 5L Migration: A Guide for System Administrators
17 April 2007, Redbooks
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 ...
IBM AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide
10 March 2008, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on the differences introduced in IBM AIX Version 6.1 when compared to AIX 5L Version 5.3. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments. AIX Version 6.1 introduces many new features, including workload partitions, advanced security, continuous ...
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a Clustered Environment
21 June 2005, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is an easy-to-follow guide that describes how to implement IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 products in highly available clustered environments. The book is intended for those who want to plan, install, test, and manage the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 in various environments by providing best practices and showing how to develop scripts for ...
14 February 2000, Redbooks
NIM is an excellent feature of the AIX operating system and is very important for teams or companies that have a need to install or upgrade many RS/6000 machines with the same images at the same time. NIM features continue to improve as new versions of AIX appear. This IBM Redbooks publication will provide users with an understanding of NIM and its application in today’s large-scale ...
15 April 2003, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication discusses interoperability in terms of UNIX to UNIX cross platform data sharing and user/system management. This book also demonstrates the similarities and differences between the AIX and Linux operating systems. This book is intended to help IT specialists who have AIX systems and Linux systems in their environments understand how to integrate and optimize AIX ...
22 September 2010, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the certification exam (Test 222) to achieve: IBM Certified Specialist eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L Version 5.3. The certification validates a broad scope of AIX 5L administration, support, problem determination skills, and the ability to perform general AIX 5L ...
IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - AIX 5L Installation and System Recovery
13 December 2002, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the AIX 5L Installation and System Recovery certification exam as a selected course of study in order to achieve the IBM eServer Certified Advanced Technical Expert - pSeries and AIX 5L certification. This book is designed to provide a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a ...
IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - AIX 5L Performance and System Tuning
16 December 2002, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the AIX 5L Performance and System Tuning certification exam as a selected course of study in order to achieve the IBM eServer Certified Advanced Technical Expert - pSeries and AIX 5L certification. This book is designed to provide a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a ...
IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - AIX 5L Problem Determination Tools and Techniques
13 January 2003, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the AIX 5L Problem Determination Tools and Techniques certification exam as a selected course of study in order to achieve the IBM eServer Certified Advanced Technical Expert - pSeries and AIX 5L certification. This book is designed to provide a combination of theory and practical experience ...
IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - AIX 5L Communications
07 January 2004, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the AIX 5L Communications certification exam as a selected course of study in order to achieve the IBM eServer Certified Advanced Technical Expert - pSeries and AIX 5L certification. This book is designed to provide a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general ...
Accounting and Auditing on AIX 5L
22 December 2004, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is a comprehensive guide to setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting the advanced auditing and accounting features on AIX 5L systems. It goes through the steps to develop, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize best practices for auditing and accounting in your environment. We provide an overview of what auditing and accounting can do for you, how to set up an ...
30 May 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication will help the AIX 5L technical community, and in particular system administrators who are well versed in the concepts and terminology of the AIX Operating System, to understand the benefits of implementing a Network Installation Manager (NIM) environment in their data center. The book applies to AIX 5L V5.3 Technology Level 5, Cluster Systems Management (CSM) ...
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX 7.1.3 Enhancements
13 December 2013, Web Doc
IBM® PowerHA® SystemMirror® for AIX® 7 represents a new generation of clustering solutions for high availability and disaster recover. Based on Cluster Aware AIX (CAA), the PowerHA SystemMirror Standard Edition and the PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition offerings represent a major shift in the traditional architectural concepts of building and managing clusters for high availability and ...
Implementing NFSv4 in the Enterprise: Planning and Migration Strategies
12 January 2006, Redbooks
The most recent maintenance release of IBM AIX 5L Version 5.3 includes a significant set of new features added to the NFSv4 implementation. In 2004, the first IBM Redbooks publication devoted to the topic of NFSv4 implementation in AIX 5L was published: "Securing NFS in AIX: An Introduction to NFS V4 in AIX 5L," SG24-7204. This book provides additional up-to-date information to help IBM ...
Quick Reference: Solaris to AIX
19 December 2000, Redpaper
Use this reference to contrast the AIX Version 4.3.3 and Solaris 8 operating systems. The following tables contrast the structure of these operating systems. Tasks are grouped according to major categories that are listed below. Each major category is contained within a table. Tables can also include location information of files or pertinent information that is related to the category they ...
Deploying PowerHA Solution with AIX HyperSwap
02 October 2014, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication will help you plan, install, tailor, and configure the new IBM PowerHA® with IBM HyperSwap® clustering solution. PowerHA with HyperSwap adds transparent storage protection for replicated storage, improving overall system availability by masking storage failures. The PowerHA cluster is an Extended Distance cluster with two sites. It manages, in principle, the ...
AIX Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: Troubleshooting and Commands
23 March 2000, Redbooks
LVM: Logical Volume Manager. What is its role in the AIX operating System? How does it perform this function? Its role is to control disk resources by mapping data between a more simple and flexible logical view of storage space and the actual physical disks. How it performs this function is a topic vast enough to fill two books. The first volume, AIX Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: ...
Auditing and Accounting on AIX
25 October 2000, Redbooks
Auditing and Accounting on AIX is your comprehensive guide to setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting the advanced auditing and accounting features on your AIX systems. Generously illustrated instructions will guide you through the steps to develop, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize best practices for auditing and accounting in your environment. In this IBM Redbooks publication, you ...
A Practical Guide for Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC)
14 August 2002, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication discusses the capabilities of Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) that enables you to monitor various resources of your system and create automated responses to changing conditions of those resources. RMC is provided by the AIX 5L Version 5.1 and later operating systems and is a subset of the functionality available in Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology (RSCT). ...
Exploiting IBM AIX Workload Partitions
14 October 2011, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an update of the latest AIX Workload Partition (WPAR) capabilities. It provides a how-to guide and well-defined and documented deployment model for system administrators and architects using WPARs in AIX® Version 7.1 within an IBM POWER® System virtualized environment. This book helps clients create a planned foundation for their future deployments. ...
IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries HACMP for AIX
30 November 2001, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the certification exam to achieve IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - pSeries HACMP for AIX. The pSeries HACMP for AIX certification validates the skills required to successfully plan, install, configure, and support an HACMP for AIX cluster installation. This book helps AIX professionals ...
IBM eServer pSeries HACMP V5.x Certification Study Guide Update
17 February 2006, Redbooks
IBM HACMP 5.x for AIX 5L (V5.1, V5.2, and the new HACMP 5.3) has introduced major changes to the well-proven IBM high availability solution for IBM eServer pSeries clusters. The changes include product usability enhancements, performance, and integration with the IBM strategic On Demand initiative. This IBM Redbooks publication provides information for system administrators who want to ...
AIX 5L Performance Tools Handbook
11 August 2003, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication takes an insightful look at the performance monitoring and tuning tools that are provided with AIX 5L. It discusses the use of the tools as well as the interpretation of the results in many examples. This book is meant as a reference for system administrators and AIX technical support professionals so they can use the performance tools efficiently and interpret ...
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Standard Edition 7.1.1 for AIX Update
23 July 2014, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you install, tailor, and configure the new IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® for AIX® 7.1.1 Standard Edition. This book gives an understanding of the Cluster Aware AIX (CAA). This book helps you design a solution to migrate from the previous version of the IBM PowerHA. This IBM Redbooks publication is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, ...
POWER7 and POWER7+ Optimization and Tuning Guide
04 March 2013, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides advice and technical information about optimizing and tuning application code to run on systems that are based on the IBM POWER7® and POWER7+™ processors. This advice is drawn from application optimization efforts across many different types of code that runs under the IBM AIX® and Linux operating systems, focusing on the more pervasive performance ...
Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.4 Installation and Upgrade on IBM Power S824
22 October 2015, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides the details for setting up an environment on AIX 7.1 on an IBM Power Systems S824 so you can install and upgrade Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2. It provides a step-by-step installation of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 for AIX 7.1. This document also provides a consolidated list of database and application tier patches to upgrade Oracle ...
Net.Commerce: Develop on NT or AIX, Deploy on S/390
23 March 2000, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication will help in understanding how to develop OS/390 Net.commerce solutions using Windows NT or AIX platforms. The approach presented in this book allows OS/390 Net.Commerce application development activity to be performed on either the Windows NT or AIX platform and then be ported to an OS/390 server for final testing and deployment. The approach outlined in this ...
Securing NFS in AIX An Introduction to NFS v4 in AIX 5L Version 5.3
09 November 2004, Redbooks
NFS Version 4 (NFS V4) is the latest defined client-to-server protocol for NFS. A significant upgrade from NFS V3, it was defined under the IETF framework by many contributors. NFS V4 introduces major changes to the way NFS has been implemented and used before now, including stronger security, wide area network sharing, and broader platform adaptability. This IBM Redbooks publication is ...
IBM System p5 Approaches to 24x7 Availability Including AIX 5L
28 August 2006, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on the technology, serviceability, and features that are used by the IBM eServer p5 and IBM System p5 servers, which allow you to make your server one of the most reliable and available parts of your IT infrastructure. This book explains how the server availability can be improved by: - Proper planning of the server environment and configuration - ...
Implementing InfiniBand on IBM System p
18 September 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication will illustrate the installation procedures of InfiniBand on the IBM System p5 with Linux and AIX 5L. InfiniBand adapters, switches, and network management software will be described in this publication. The IBM HPC stack will be tested with InfiniBand (Parallel Environment, LoadLeveler, GPFS, ESSL, and Parallel ESSL). Communication protocols such as MPI and LAPI ...
Configuring and Managing AIX Clusters Using xCAT 2
26 October 2009, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication positions the new Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit 2.x (xCAT 2) against the IBM Cluster Systems Management (CSM) for IBM Power Systems™ running AIX in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. This book provides information to help you: - Understand, from a broad perspective, a new clustering management architecture. We emphasize the benefits of this ...
How to: Easily Configure TCP/IP on Your AIX System
19 December 2000, Redpaper
With AIX, you can configure your TCP/IP network with a single command, mktcpip. On other systems, setting up TCP/IP might involve creating and editing multiple files, executing a number of commands, setting various variables, locating values for persistence after reboot, and starting several daemons. The mktcpip command completes all the necessary TCP/IP configuration tasks for a typical ...
19 September 2007, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper positions the new IBM Director V5.20 against the other IBM systems management products. Although IBM systems management software products include several choices as Cluster Systems Management and IBM Tivoli Management suite, and some features might seem to overlap, each product targets a specific environment. This paper will help you to install, tailor, and configure the IBM ...
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Best Practices
03 September 2014, Redpaper
IBM® PowerHA® SystemMirror® for AIX® (formerly IBM HACMP™) was first available in 1991 and is now in its 24th release, with over 20,000 PowerHA clusters in production, worldwide. IBM PowerHA SystemMirror is recognized as a robust, mature high availability solution. PowerHA supports a wide variety of configurations, and offers a great deal of flexibility to the cluster administrator. With this ...
IBM Power Systems 775 for AIX and Linux HPC Solution
04 March 2014, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication contains information about the IBM Power Systems™ 775 Supercomputer solution for AIX® and Linux HPC customers. This publication provides details about how to plan, configure, maintain, and run HPC workloads in this environment. This IBM Redbooks document is targeted to current and future users of the IBM Power Systems 775 Supercomputer (consultants, IT ...
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 9i RAC and DB2 UDB V8 on IBM eServer pSeries
11 April 2006, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper describes our installation and testing of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 9i RAC and IBM DB2 Universal Database V8 on AIX 5L , running on IBM eServer pSeries . It describes a high availability solution implemented for demonstration purposes at the IBM Benchmark Center in Montpellier, France.
Best Practices for DB2 on AIX 6.1 for POWER Systems
27 August 2015, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication presents a best practices guide for DB2® and InfoSphere™ Warehouse performance on a AIX® 6L with Power Systems™ virtualization environment. It covers Power hardware features such as PowerVM™, multi-page support, Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) and how to best exploit them with DB2 LUW workloads for both transactional and data warehousing ...
Exploiting IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V6.1 for AIX Enterprise Edition
18 February 2014, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication positions the IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® V6.1 for AIX® Enterprise Edition as the cluster management solution for high availability. This solution enables near-continuous application service and minimizes the impact of planned and unplanned outages. The primary goal of this high-availability solution is to recover operations at a remote location after a system or ...
Problem Solving and Troubleshooting in AIX 5L
14 May 2002, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication covers problem determination and troubleshooting on the IBM eServer pSeries and RS/6000 platform. It is intended as a guide to the approach that should be adopted when attempting to resolve a problem on the IBM eServer pSeries and RS/6000 system running AIX 5L Version 5.1. It should be considered a useful supplement to guide you through the problem determination ...
Additional AIX Security Tools on IBM eServer pSeries, IBM RS/6000, and SP/Cluster
19 January 2001, Redbooks
From firewalls to operating system hardening, this IBM Redbooks publication illustrates additional tools and techniques that you can use to enhance the security environment of your IBM eServer pSeries, IBM RS/6000 workstation, SP, or Cluster. The approach taken is from outside to inside and from top to bottom. We move from the servers on the far reaches of your network that are visible to the ...
25 July 2001, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication details the types of problems most likely to be encountered when porting applications from other UNIX-based platforms to the AIX 5L Operating System. When porting an application to a new operating system there are things you have to know and questions you have to ask, such as: - What programming models are available? - How are threads implemented? - What link ...
WebSphere Information Integrator Q Replication: Fast Track Implementation Scenarios
16 January 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication provides an overview of WebSphere Information Integrator Q replication, and provides guidelines for exploiting its high throughput, low latency, and other capabilities in the design and implementation of high-availability and high-performance distributed business solutions on the z/OS and AIX platforms. It also describes a step-by-step approach to implementing ...
AIX Reference for Sun Solaris Administrators
14 October 2002, Redbooks
In today's heterogeneous computer environments, especially UNIX servers and workstations, it is essential that the system administrator have basic knowledge of different operating systems. This IBM Redbooks publication is written for Sun Solaris administrators who wants to transfer their knowledge of Solaris UNIX skills to the AIX 5L operating system. This book will basically compare system ...
IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.1 Handbook
27 April 2005, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication positions the new features and enhancements of IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms Version 5.1 and serves as a follow-up to the book, "IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook," SG24-6098. This "IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.1 Handbook" will help you to understand how to install, tailor, and configure WebSphere Portal V5.1 within the ...
IBM PowerSC Trusted Surveyor Technical Overview
08 May 2013, Web Doc
IBM PowerSC™ provides a security and compliance solution that is optimized for virtualized environments on IBM Power Systems™ servers, running IBM PowerVM™ and IBM AIX®. Security control and compliance are some of the key components that are needed to defend the virtualized data center and cloud infrastructure against ever evolving new threats. Tursted Surveyor is one of the separately available ...
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Rapid Deploy Cluster Worksheets
28 April 2014, Web Doc
This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide is intended to assist with the rapid deployment of a IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® V7 cluster by using the new clmgr command-line interface. It also provides examples of common administrative tasks, sample configuration files, and useful logs.
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2 for IBM AIX Updates
14 March 2019, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses topics to help answer customers' complex high availability requirements to help maximize systems availability and resources, and provide documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the worldwide sales and support teams. This publication helps strengthen the position of the IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® solution with a well-defined and documented ...
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.1 for IBM AIX Updates
13 March 2019, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps strengthen the position of the IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® solution with a well-defined and documented deployment models within an IBM Power Systems™ virtualized environment, which provides customers with a planned foundation for business resilience and disaster recovery for their IBM Power Systems infrastructure solutions. This publication addresses topics ...
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.3 for IBM AIX and V7.22 for Linux
16 April 2020, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps strengthen the position of the IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® for Linux solution with well-defined and documented deployment models within an IBM Power Systems™ environment, which provides customers a planned foundation for business resilience and disaster recovery (DR) for their IBM Power Systems infrastructure solutions. This book addresses topics to help ...
Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX
27 March 2009, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication will help experienced UNIX application developers who are new to the AIX operating system. The book explains the many concepts in detail, including the following: - Enhancements and new features provided by the latest C and C++ compilers for AIX - Compiling and linking tasks required to effectively use and manage shared libraries and run-time linking - Use ...
11 December 2024, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper introduces the AIX Geographic Logical Volume Manage and examines DR options for AIX, both on premises and in the Cloud. It also offers recommendations designed to ensure a smooth implementation and covers good practices around ongoing maintenance and monitoring. The main driver for writing this document was to address the varied experiences we have seen with the implementation ...
Clustering Solutions Overview: Parallel Sysplex and Other Platforms
09 April 2007, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper will help you do an informed comparison of Parallel Sysplex® against clustering implementations on other platforms. We start by describing the basic components of Parallel Sysplex data sharing, using DB2® as a sample implementation of the capabilities provided by Parallel Sysplex. Using this as a base, we then describe how each of the components are implemented on other ...
WebSphere MQ V6, WebSphere Message Broker V6, and SSL
21 November 2006, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper provides step-by-step guides to implement IBM WebSphere MQ Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) channels in a variety of configurations: Microsoft Windows to and from Windows WebSphere MQ clients to WebSphere MQ queue managers (both on Windows) Any-to-any WebSphere MQ channel connections on IBM z/OS, AIX 5L, and Windows, using RACF as the certification authority WebSphere ...
WebSphere Replication Server Using Q Replication High Availability Scenarios for the AIX Platform
16 June 2006, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication provides detailed instructions and scripts on managing failover and switchback in a bidirectional Q replication environment for the AIX platform. A typical business scenario is used to showcase the bidirectional failover/switchback implementation. The book also includes a HADR high availability scenario for the source system in a Q replication environment ...
Guide to IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Version 7.1.3
16 June 2015, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication for IBM Power Systems™ with IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® Standard and Enterprise Editions (hardware, software, practices, reference architectures, and tools) documents a well-defined deployment model within an IBM Power Systems environment. It guides you through a planned foundation for a dynamic infrastructure for your enterprise applications. This information is ...
IBM System Storage DS8000: Host Attachment and Interoperability
15 February 2013, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses host attachment and interoperability considerations for the IBM System Storage® DS8000® series. Within this book, you can find information about the most popular host operating systems platforms, including Windows®, IBM AIX®, VIOS, Linux®, Solaris, HP-UX, VMware, Apple, and IBM z/OS® The topics covered in this book target administrators or other ...
IBM Flex System p24L, p260 and p460 Compute Nodes
29 May 2014, Web Doc
The IBM Flex System™ p24L, p260 and p460 Compute Nodes are servers based on IBM® POWER® architecture technologies. These compute nodes run in IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis units to provide a high-density, high-performance compute node environment, using advanced processing technology. The p260 and p460 support IBM AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating environments and are designed to run a wide ...
Employing Strategies for Optimizing your IBM POWER8 (and Earlier) Processor-based Systems
03 April 2017, Web Doc
Critical business needs can be met with more assurance in an optimized, well-tuned environment. This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide describes some of the strategies for optimizing and tuning application code to run on IBM POWER8™ and earlier processor-based systems (IBM Power Systems™). These strategies are drawn from performance optimization efforts across many types of code running on IBM AIX®, ...
Maximizing the Value of an IBM POWER7 and IBM POWER7+ Environment through Tuning and Optimization
21 March 2013, Web Doc
Strategies for optimizing and tuning application code to run on IBM POWER7® and IBM POWER7+™ processor-based systems can be invaluable to your environment and to your business. They can substantially improve the performance of the applications that run on these systems. Optimizing and tuning your IBM Power Systems™ environment can be an important step in meeting your critical business needs. ...
Performance Tuning of ICED on POWER4 platforms
06 November 2003, Redpaper
A striking example of the effectiveness of High Performance Computing was recently demonstrated on an IBM POWER4 platform. The project involved a biological application called "Independently Consistent Expression Discriminator (ICED)." ICED is a sample classification application for microarray data analysis that helps identify disease-relevant genes for medical research. After enabling and tuning ...
Configuring SDDPCM for High Availability
16 October 2012, Redpaper
In this IBM® Redpaper™ publication we discuss new path management attributes that were added to the IBM Subsystem Device Driver Path Control Module (SDDPCM) for IBM AIX®. These new attributes and associated algorithms were developed to address a path failure condition referred to as temporary/recurring. This paper is intended to familiarize you with both the temporary/recurring path failure ...
Quick Reference: AIX Journaled File Systems and Veritas File System
19 December 2000, Redpaper
This paper will help administrators of VxFS learn and manage JFS and JFS2. Functional differences and commonality among these file systems will be listed, with a brief discussion about the differences. This paper provides only an overview of differences to the system administrator who is familiar with VxFS systems.
IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
18 March 2004, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication positions the IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms as the solution to best address the process of building scalable and reliable business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals. The IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook will help you to understand the WebSphere Portal architecture, how to install, ...
Implementing Kerberos in a WebSphere Application Server Environment
26 April 2011, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses Kerberos technology with IBM WebSphere® Application Server V7.0.0.5 on distributed platforms. IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0.0.5 Kerberos Authentication and single sign-on (SSO) features enable interoperability and identity propagation with other applications (such as .NET, DB2®, and others) that support the Kerberos authentication mechanism. With ...
Performance Optimization and Tuning Techniques for IBM Power Systems Processors Including IBM POWER8
31 March 2017, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on gathering the correct technical information, and laying out simple guidance for optimizing code performance on IBM POWER8® processor-based systems that run the IBM AIX®, IBM i, or Linux operating systems. There is straightforward performance optimization that can be performed with a minimum of effort and without extensive previous experience or in-depth ...
Quick Reference: AIX Logical Volume Manager and Veritas Volume Manager
19 December 2000, Redpaper
In the world of UNIX storage management, there are two primary leaders: IBM and Veritas. Both companies offer products that help UNIX system administrators manage storage in very flexible methods in comparison to older UNIX implementations. IBM offers the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) as part of its Advanced Interactive Executive (AIX) operating system. The LVM is built into the base ...
Database Performance Tuning on AIX
20 January 2003, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed to help system designers, system administrators, and database administrators design, size, implement, maintain, monitor, and tune a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) for optimal performance on AIX. RDBMS is usually a significant factor in building the profit line of a company. They represent an important investment and their performance is ...
IBM WebSphere Voice Systems Solutions
29 January 2003, Redbooks
The WebSphere Voice Server product is a member of the IBM WebSphere software family. It provides a platform that enables the creation of voice applications through industry standards such as VoiceXML and Java. The WebSphere Voice Server facilitates the deployment of voice applications by interfacing with voice standards such as Cisco VoIP, IBM DirectTalk, and Dialogic platforms. It further aids ...
15 December 2005, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wanting to prepare for the certification exam to achieve IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer p5 and pSeries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3. This technical support certification validates a broad scope of configuration, installation, and planning skills. In addition, it covers administrative and diagnostic ...
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Version 8.4 Configuration and Implementation Scenarios
08 May 2007, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication documents the procedures for implementing IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Version 8.4 technology in a single-server Windows environment, two-server Linux environment, and a four-server AIX environment. Supported data sources include DB2, Windows file system, DB2 Content Manager, Lotus Domino, Lotus Quickplace, WebSphere Portal Server, Web Content Management (WCM), ...
IBM BladeCenter JS12 and JS22 Implementation Guide
12 January 2009, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a detailed technical guide for configuring and using the IBM BladeCenter® JS12 and IBM BladeCenter JS22 servers. These IBM Power Blade servers feature the latest IBM POWER6™ processor technology. This book teaches you how to set up the latest Power Blade servers to run AIX® , i, and Linux® operating systems in the IBM BladeCenter architecture. This ...
04 May 2009, Redbooks
The IBM® System z® platform is the strategic core of business world wide. By using a realistic customer scenario, two IBM teams ventured to demonstrate how to deploy the IBM service-oriented architecture (SOA) portfolio on IBM z/OS® and on z/OS in partnership with additional platforms such as AIX® and Linux® for System z. The teams created the experience that is documented in this IBM Redbooks® ...
