Jose Luis Ortega
Contributor
Jose Luis Ortega has been working with the IBM Power Systems with AIX and Linux and IBM Informix and Db2 databases since 2006, focusing on systems management and technical support. He has held numerous technical positions through out his career. He is the General Manager of Advantek Informatica Especializada S.A.S and president of Advantek Inc., an IBM Business Partner in Colombia and Florida U.S, delivering solutions in IBM Power Systems, storage, database, data and AI, cloud, among other solutions. He is an IBM Certified Systems Expert with certifications in IBM AIX Design, LPAR, virtualization, implementation, and HMC management, and data and AI solutions based on Informix, Db2, Filenet. Jose has more than 40 technical certifications, including CATE V2 and V3 for AIX, Db2, Informix, TOGAF and PMP Certifications. In addition, he has a BS in Computer Science from North University of Colombia, and a post-graduate and a Master in Project Management (MPM) from the EAFIT University of Colombia. He is a frequent speaker at the IBM Technical Universities in United States, member of the writing team of IBM AIX 7.2 specialty certification tests, has authored articles for the IBM System Magazine, and is an IBM Champion for Power Systems. Jose has been an IBM Champion for Power Systems since 2020 and is one of the four recipients of IBM Champion for Power Systems in Latin America and the only Champion in Colombia.
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, […]
ArticlesMonitoring Tools for Power Systems and AIX
October 20, 2021
Monitoring tools improve service availability and productivity by proactively identifying, diagnosing and repairing slow or otherwise unstable connections. On the other hand, management tools ensure that your system is available, configured properly and its components are connected correctly and as expected, whereas monitoring tools look for overall system, communication, and application performance impacts. For above-mentioned […]
ArticlesBest Practices for AIX in a SAN Environment: Part 2, I/O Configurations
July 14, 2021
In my last article I explained the best practices for AIX in a SAN environment from a SAN perspective. I explained some best practices for SAN topologies, multipathing, FC-HBA configurations, among other recommendations. In this article, I’ll explain the best practices for the I/O configuration from the AIX perspective—that is, recommendations for data layout, filesystems, flash caches configuration […]
ArticlesBest Practices for AIX in a SAN Environment: Part 1
June 24, 2021
AIX supports different SAN topologies, switches and storage servers from multiple vendors. This represents challenges, due to the fact the interoperability among vendors is less than ideal. Therefore, one important aspect to get a reliable AIX is to follow the best practices for the SAN environment. In this article, I want to explain the major […]