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AIX Patch Management With Ansible, and the Broader Benefits of Automation

Rob McNelly

July 15, 2021

Waiting on a Replacement Part, the Latest With OpenSSH, a Bold Client Choice and a VIOS Webinar

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Understanding Disk Space Utilization With IBM i Navigator Performance Tasks

Dawn May

July 14, 2021

Disk space utilization is simply how much of your available disk space is in use. Understanding disk space utilization is something all shops need to do since disk space utilization tends to creep up over time. In my experience, those who are not proactive in understanding where their disk space is going often end up […]

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Best Practices for AIX in a SAN Environment: Part 2, I/O Configurations

Jose Luis Ortega

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 […]

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IBM i Navigator System Monitors

Dawn May

July 6, 2021

Everyone should be proactively monitoring key metrics on IBM i. If you’re not already monitoring your system, I recommend getting started with IBM i System Monitors, which are included with Navigator for i. The feature article, Monitor Your IBM i Application and System Health, reviews why you should proactively monitor your system; this blog post shows you how to get […]

Podcasts

Susan Gantner, Jon Paris and Paul Tuohy on the Future of Virtual Conferences

Charlie Guarino

July 1, 2021

Charlie Guarino: Hi everybody. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk. This is Charlie Guarino and today we are doing a departure from our traditional podcasts. In the past, it's always been one on one where we have one person, and we have an entire interview about that, but we're doing a different format today. If I […]

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