AIX hints, tips, questions - and Answers

Board for announcements, comments and support of opensource software packaged as aixtools.

A forum for discussing open source and commericial applications not covered elsewhere. Examples: Apache, mysql, db2, php, AIX Toolbox, Domino, etc.

A place for notices

Discuss Linux on POWER - especially the "open" versions!

A trial board - see if this provides a service (without causing too much 'unwanted' traffic).

This board covers POWER5 and later systems. The key difference in these systems - compared to earlier systems is the POWER Hypervisor and Service Porcessor connections via TCPIP rather than RS/232. The differences are mainly in the features, not in the management.

Virtualization - as we know it for AIX began with these systems (The term LPAR - logical partition - started with systems. Also starting with POWER4 - DLPAR - better named Dynamic Resource Allocation). Firmware updates, partitioning (HMC Version 3), etc.. POWER4 systems were also installed as bare metal (i.e., no HMC management, no virtualization).

chrp models support AIX thru AIX 5.3; mca and rspc models support AIX thru AIX 5.1 (i.e., Power 4 and above is needed for AIX 6)