Performance and Management Tools for AIX and Power Systems: Features and Use Cases
December 7, 2021
While monitoring and management solutions perform somewhat similar tasks, they’ve traditionally served different enough functions to keep them from being optimally paired as a collaborative unit. Management tools ensure that your system is available, configured properly or optimized and its components are connected correctly and as expected, whereas monitoring tools look for overall system, communication, […]
ArticlesPower Systems Best Practices Doc Updated, dnf, New IBM Customer Support Portals and More.
June 15, 2021
The Power Implementation Quality Standard for Commercial Workloads document has been updated. Get the details from Rob McNelly here.
ArticlesWhy You Should be Running VIOS 3.x
November 2, 2020
Technical Editor Rob McNelly explains the advantages of upgrading your VIO server.
ArticlesPowerVM Capability Offers Value to SAP HANA
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A new PowerVM capability called Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) provides a fast restart of workloads during outages in SAP HANA environments.
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Mainframe computing has been changing and growing for over 60 years, but the IBM z15 is more like a giant leap than a step increment in the IBM Z architecture.
New Redbooks Catalogs Key AIX Enhancements
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Published last month, the new IBM Redbooks publication covers security and networking enhancements, virtualization and cloud capabilities, PowerVM features—plus plenty more.
ArticlesNIM Users Must Get Current on AIX
December 10, 2019
A recent change in OS versioning requires NIM servers to run on the latest versions of AIX.
ArticlesVirtualizing Storage with LPM via vSCSI
December 3, 2019
Moving to POWER9? Live Partition Mobility (LPM) can be used to virtualize storage on LPARs connected to VIO servers via vSCSI.
ArticlesGraphing AIX Performance Data
October 30, 2019
Understand your unique environment to best collect and graph data.
Articles10 Things to Love About AIX
June 1, 2019
Rob McNelly lists 10 things he really appreciates—and yes, loves—about AIX.