Power 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
February 18, 2020
A new PowerVM capability called Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) provides a fast restart of workloads during outages in SAP HANA environments.
ArticlesThe z15 Represents a Huge Leap for IBM Z
February 6, 2020
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.
ArticlesNew Redbooks Catalogs Key AIX Enhancements
February 4, 2020
Published last month, the new IBM Redbooks publication covers security and networking enhancements, virtualization and cloud capabilities, PowerVM features—plus plenty more.
NIM 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.
ArticlesPowerVC-Based Tool Rebalances Workloads
February 5, 2019
Using the PowerVC Dynamic Resource Optimizer to automatically rebalance AIX workloads on IBM Power Systems servers.