Systems Management

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on the New AIX 7.3 Announcement

AIX 7.3 was announced on October 19, 2021. Get the details from Rob McNelly in this video.

How to Check NPIV Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Mapping on AIX

AIX/Power System administrators can now use an alternative to kdb for viewing VIOS "identifying info" from client AIX LPARs. Learn more from Chris Gibson here.

A New AIX Video Series and the Latest on AIX Open Beta and Power10

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on his new TechChannel AIX video series, and the latest news on Power10 and AIX open beta

TechChannel E-book: How to Effectively Monitor and Measure Your Data Center

Running an efficient data center requires constant monitoring and measurement. This means understanding everything from storage best practices and tools for maximizing performance. Data temperature, for example, often determines the percentage of budget that gets devoted to storing different types of data. Once you create process maps based on the data’s temperature, you can better […]

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Protecting Data Within New HA/DR Parameters

There are two types of organizations in the world: those that have experienced unplanned system downtime and those that will. Of the first group, many have likely tightened up their high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) methods and tools as a result of their incidents, moving, for example, to hosted cloud-based HA/DR services. Within the […]

The Importance of Cloud-Based HA/DR Technology

For many organizations, budgeting discussions for disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) have played out in a similar manner for decades: The IT department asks to spend a set amount for capital expenditures and a set amount for operating expenses. However, the infrastructure needed to back up the data center and networks in case […]

Rob McNelly on the IBM Support Technical Support Appliance

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on practical uses for the IBM Support Technical Support Appliance (TSA), how to set it up, report information and more

You’ve Heard the News, Now Dig Into the Details: Get up to Speed on the Power10 Announcement

IBM Champion Rob McNelly on Power10 E1080 server highlights, and resources you can use to learn more

Video Tutorial: Using invscout on AIX

Learn how to use the invscout command on AIX from IBM Champion Rob McNelly: Transcript: As I paddled my Kayak down the Colorado River, I realized that many of you had fallen behind on your system patching. As server administrators, besides updating our operating system, and our virtual IO server, and our HMC code, we […]

Installing an ifix With AIX Live Update

Chris Gibson explains how to install an AIX security ifix without a reboot