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Introducing VERITAS Foundation Suite for AIX

Introducing VERITAS Foundation Suite for AIX

By: KyeongWon Jeong; Anita Govindjee; Fred Sherman; Jason Littin; Shona Robertson

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 04-NOV-2002

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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 other UNIX platforms since VERITAS Foundation Suite for AIX provides a similar environment for them. That means they can use their same skills and knowledge in the AIX environment. This IBM Redbooks...

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An Introduction to Security in a CSM 1.3 for AIX 5L Environment

An Introduction to Security in a CSM 1.3 for AIX 5L Environment

By: Octavian Lascu; Rashid Ahmed; Stuart Carroll; Teresa Coleman; Maik Haehnel; Petr Klabenes; Dino Quintero; Rogelio Reyes Jr.; Mizuho Tanaka; David Duy Truong

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 20-DEC-2002

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This IBM Redbooks publication contains information about the first official release of the new clustering software IBM Cluster Systems Management (CSM) on AIX 5L Version 5.2. Features include base cluster configuration and management, Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC), subsystem access control list setup for shipped CSM resource managers, hardware control, configuration file management, distributed command execution, and a distributed GUI based on the AIX WebSM infrastructure. Included in this release of CSM is a complete set of base security functions based on IBM...

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Cluster Systems Management Cookbook for pSeries

Cluster Systems Management Cookbook for pSeries

By: Dino Quintero; Thomas Braunbeck; Ong Swee Thye; Andrei Vlad; Peter Zutenis

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 01-DEC-2004

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This IBM Redbooks publication is a practical cookbook that provides up-to-date information about Cluster Systems Management (CSM) for AIX 5L for a pSeries environment. The book provides information about the latest CSM for AIX 5L enhancements, including implementation techniques, installation changes, installation tools, system management tools, monitoring tools, hardware control, file distribution, problem determination, and management server high availability. This book summarizes the latest news in CSM 1.4.0. It contains a Q&A chapter, a CSM installation scenario, a CSM advanced chapter,...

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Implementing NFSv4 in the Enterprise: Planning and Migration Strategies

Implementing NFSv4 in the Enterprise: Planning and Migration Strategies

By: Gene Curylo; Richard Joltes; Trishali Nayar; Bob Oesterlin; Aniket Patel; Chris Almond

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 15-DEC-2005

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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 clients understand and take advantage of the new NFSv4 functions provided by AIX 5L Version 5.3 with the 5300-03 Recommended Maintenance Package. The NFSv4 implementation in AIX 5L has now expanded to...

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Exploiting IBM AIX Workload Partitions

Exploiting IBM AIX Workload Partitions

By: Dino Quintero; Shane Brandon; Bernhard Buehler; Thierry Fauck; Guilherme Galoppini Felix; Chris Gibson; Bob Maher; Mehboob Mithaiwala; Kurosh Khan-Afshar Moha; Mathis Mueller; Bjorn Roden; Marian Tomescu

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 04-AUG-2011

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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. This book is targeted toward technical professionals, such as business intelligence (BI) consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists, who are responsible for...

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IBM AIX Version 7.1 Differences Guide

IBM AIX Version 7.1 Differences Guide

By: Richard Bassemir; Thierry Fauck; Chris Gibson; Brad Gough; Murali Neralla; Armin Röll; Murali Vaddagiri; Scott Vetter

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 26-DEC-2010

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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 performance tool enhancements - Terabyte segment support - Cluster Aware AIX functionality AIX Version 7.1 offers many other new enhancements, and you can explore them all in this publication. For...

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Configuring and Managing AIX Clusters Using xCAT 2

Configuring and Managing AIX Clusters Using xCAT 2

By: Octavian Lascu; Timothy (Tim) Donovan; Saul Hiller; Simeon McAleer; Laszlo Niesz; Sean Saunders; Kai Wu; Peter Zutenis

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 26-OCT-2009

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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 new solution for deploying HPC clusters of large numbers of nodes. - Install and customize the new xCAT cluster management in various configurations. - Design and create a solution to migrate from...

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Driving the Power of AIX: Performance Tuning on IBM Power Systems

Driving the Power of AIX: Performance Tuning on IBM Power Systems

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Publisher: MC Press

Publication Date: 01-NOV-2009

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Maximize your efforts toward effective performance tuning on AIX on IBM's Power Systems (IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, System i, AIX, and Linux). With detailed information on optimizing your CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O subsystems, along with data on both AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1, the author gives detailed instructions on how to tune your system effectively, delivering the performance boost you desire. In addition to these topics, chapters on the new AIX 6.1, Linux, and Oracle running on IBM Power Systems are included. Packed with real-world know-how from author Ken Milberg—a 20-year systems...

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PowerHA for AIX Cookbook

PowerHA for AIX Cookbook

By: Scott Vetter; Shawn Bodily; Rosemary Killeen; Liviu Rosca

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 13-AUG-2009

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication will help you install, tailor, and configure the new PowerHA™ Version 5.5, and understand new and improved features such as WebSMIT gateway, non-disruptive migrations, C-SPOC enhancements, and Disaster Recovery (DR) configurations, such as GLVM in asynchronous mode. This publication provides a broad understanding of the PowerHA and PowerHA Extended Distance (PowerHA/XD) architecture. If you plan to install, migrate, or administer a high availability cluster, this book is right for you. Disaster recovery elements and how PowerHA fulfills these necessities are...

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AIX 5L on the IBM System i Platform: Implementation Guide

AIX 5L on the IBM System i Platform: Implementation Guide

By: Yessong Johng; Michael Gilley; Grant Wang

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 30-MAR-2007

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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 AIX 5L V5.3 operating system, the same level of server virtualization, such as dynamic resource allocation, is realized as the current IBM eServer iSeries® level server virtualization. This...

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IBM AIX Enterprise Edition System Administration Guide

IBM AIX Enterprise Edition System Administration Guide

By: Shane Brandon; Erin Fitzgerald; SeongLul Son; Scott Vetter

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 28-MAY-2009

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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 management software that is designed to complement the features of AIX V6.1. AIX Enterprise Edition is designed to improve the manageability of a virtualized AIX environment. Potential benefits include: -...

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Multitenant Utility Computing on IBM Power Systems Running AIX

Multitenant Utility Computing on IBM Power Systems Running AIX

By: Chris Almond; Paulo Cesar Chiquito; Carlos Henrique Fachim; Sehee Kim; Masahiko Okajima; Pauli RŠmš

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 18-FEB-2009

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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 powerful set of integrated functions for infrastructure management in multitenant utility computing environments. In this book, we focus on the following topics: * Using System p, IBM AIX 6,...

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Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1

Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1

By: Shane Brandon; Anirban Chatterjee; Henning Gammelmark; Vijayasekhar Mekala; Liviu Rosca; Arindom Sanyal; Chris Almond

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 24-DEC-2008

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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 “how to” guide for system administrators and architects using workload partitions in AIX V6.1 TL2. It builds on the original concepts and practices described in the first Redbooks publication about this...

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NIM from A to Z in AIX 5L

NIM from A to Z in AIX 5L

By: Dino Quintero; Octavian Lascu; Jean-Michel Berail; Hassan Elsetohy; Chris Gibson; Andreas Gogolin; Markus Lang; Sven Meissner; Pablo Pereira; Bjorn Roden; Kelvin Tan

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 30-MAY-2007

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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) V1.5.1, and IBM Director V5.1. The concept of a cluster (that is, at least two IBM System p machines connected through a network) presents the challenge of installing, maintaining, updating and...

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AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Edition

AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Edition

By: Scott Vetter; Adrian Demeter; Shiv Dutta; Armin Röll; SeongLul Son

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 09-DEC-2004

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This IBM Redbook 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 the advanced capabilities of POWER5 equipped severs, such as Virtual SCSI, Virtual Ethernet SMT, Micro-Partitioning, and others. There are many other enhancements available with AIX 5L Version 5.3, and you can...

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AIX V6 Advanced Security Features Introduction and Configuration

AIX V6 Advanced Security Features Introduction and Configuration

By: Brad Gough; Christian Karpp; Rajeev Mishra; Liviu Rosca; Jackie Wilson; Chris Almond

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 12-SEP-2007

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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 introduced with AIX V6. Major new security enhancements will be introduced with AIX V6 in 2007: - Trusted AIX (Multilevel Security) - Role Based Access Control (RBAC) - Encrypted File System - Trusted...

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IBM AIX 5L Reference for HP-UX System Administrators

IBM AIX 5L Reference for HP-UX System Administrators

By: Dino Quintero; Harrison Leal; Geoffrey Mattes; Manoj Sooka

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 16-MAR-2006

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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 Redbook concentrates on providing experienced systems administrators in one flavor of UNIX (either HP-UX or AIX 5L) with a jump start into easy administration of the other. We concentrate on HP-UX 11i Version 1 (also known as HP-UX 11.11) as we had no access to...

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Introduction to Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1

Introduction to Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1

By: Chris Almond; Bruno Blanchard; Pedro Coelho; Mary Hazuka; Jerry Petru; Theeraphong Thitayanun

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 15-NOV-2007

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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 an AIX instance into multiple environments, each hosting applications and providing isolation from applications executing in the other environments - The ability to checkpoint and restart execution of...

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Accounting and Auditing on AIX 5L

Accounting and Auditing on AIX 5L

By: Octavian Lascu; Rajeev Palanki; Sorin Todorescu; Tirapat Ua-arak

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 22-DEC-2004

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This IBM Redbook 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 auditing system, procedures for creating the right accounting system for your environment, and a summary of available third-party accounting systems that can plug into the AIX suite. Learn to decide how much...

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Managing AIX Server Farms

Managing AIX Server Farms

By: Keigo Matsubara; Adam Parker; AndrŽ Luiz A Castro; Federico Saizar; Tomoyuki Niijima

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 28-JUN-2002

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Today's e-business relies heavily on secure, robust, scalable, and cost-effective server management, which is not an easy task to accomplish. The focus of this IBM Redbooks publication is to explain practical methodology for administering AIX systems in a server farm environment, providing configuration and usage examples of several AIX operating system functions and free software tools, which include: - Planning AIX server farms - Understanding serial connections - Practical use of serial connections - Secure network connection on AIX - Remote monitoring using SNMP - Packaging your...