Monitoring 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 […]
ArticlesAIX 7.3 Leverages Power10 Processor to Support Customers’ Hybrid Multicloud and AI Endeavors
October 19, 2021
The new AIX 7.3 release brings customers new ways to integrate their mission critical infrastructure with new and enhanced capabilities. IBM designed AIX 7.3 in response to feedback from customers, particularly around extracting business value from data and supporting their hybrid multicloud strategies. Its new features take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Power10 […]
ArticlesA New AIX Video Series and the Latest on AIX Open Beta and Power10
October 14, 2021
A quick professional note: I’ve launched a video series for TechChannel. I’ve recorded three so far, including my latest on the Technical Support Appliance (TSA). Take a moment to check them out—the videos all clock in at around four minutes—and then send me suggestions for topics you’d like to see covered going forward. Being new […]
ArticlesProtecting Data Within New HA/DR Parameters
September 30, 2021
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 […]
ArticlesThe Cost of Enterprise Downtime
September 30, 2021
Enterprise downtime is now more expensive than ever: Some 44% of firms indicate that hourly downtime costs exceed $1 million to over $5 million, exclusive of any legal fees, fines or penalties. Additionally, 91% organizations said a single hour of downtime that takes mission-critical server hardware and applications offline, averages over $300,000 due to lost […]
The Importance of Cloud-Based HA/DR Technology
September 30, 2021
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 […]
ArticlesYou’ve Heard the News, Now Dig Into the Details: Get up to Speed on the Power10 Announcement
September 14, 2021
On Sept. 8, IBM announced the new Power10 server, the E1080 (9080-HEX). While much has already been written about the new server, I’m here to share more details. If you take the time to check out even a few of the many links in this article, you’ll soon be up to speed. I’ve also included links to in-depth training, […]
VideoVideo Tutorial: Using invscout on AIX
September 1, 2021
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 […]
ArticlesInstalling an ifix With AIX Live Update
September 1, 2021
Chris Gibson explains how to install an AIX security ifix without a reboot
ArticlesCLI Options for Configuring and Modifying LPARs
August 23, 2021
Gareth Coates, whose work I’ve cited previously, recently explained how to create an LPAR without using the HMC GUI: “Here is a suite of files to create an LPAR on an IBM [Power Systems server]…. There are shell scripts and configuration files. You need to make changes to suit your particular environment. I’d say that […]