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2010 IBM Corporation
2008 IBMCorporation
AIX:The Future of UNIX
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Essex Technology Group, Inc.
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Rochelle Park NJ 07662
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As the world gets smarter, infrastructure demands will grow
Smarttraffic
systems
Smart watermanagement
Smartenergygrids
Smarthealthcare
Smartfood
systems
Intelligentoil fieldtechnologies
Smartregions
Smartweather
Smartcountries
Smartsupply
chains
Smartcities
Smart retail
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Consolidating with AIX on Power Systemsenables clients to
Server consolidation improves service to clients bydelivering flexible performance, dynamic provisioningand enabling clients to avoid disruption
Server consolidation with shared resources enables highsystem utilization, which lowers the cost of ownershipby reducing networking, energy, floor space, andsoftware costs.
REDUCE COST
IMPROVE SERVICE
MANAGE RISK
Server consolidation manages IT risk by improvingsecurity, increasing business resiliency andsimplifying operations.
AIX, Power Systems and PowerVM are designed to delivereffective consolidation in the most demanding data centers
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Winn-DixieStrengthening the infrastructure with an IBM consolidation solution
Business challenge:Winn-Dixie, a Jacksonville, Florida-based grocery chain based withmore than 600 retail locations throughout the southeastern U.S.,needed a cost-effective and easily managed solution to replace itsaging distributed IT infrastructure and quickly enable disasterrecovery.
Solution:The solution consolidated more than 600 stand-alone servers atindividual grocery stores into a centralized data center at WinnDixie headquarters using IBM AIX and IBM PowerVM
virtualization technologies to support 16 stores on a singleIBM BladeCenter JS22 blade server, mirrored to a nearby facilityas well as to a remote disaster recovery location.
Benefits:
Redirected $5 million capital cost savings to storeremodelling
Improved application performance by 5 to 10 times, enablingbetter service
Reduced disaster recovery time from days to hours
We thought the IBM
solution gave us the most
flexibility not only for now,
but going forward. It
accommodated our existing
application portfolio while
providing a very rich
upgrade path in ourinfrastructure.
Barry Kirk, director ofarchitecture, Winn-Dixie
Solution components:
IBM BladeCenter JS22blades in IBM BladeCenter H
IBM PowerVM
IBM AIX
POP03046-USEN-00
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Baylor College of Medicine improves performance andsets the stage for an SAP upgrade with IBM serversBusiness challenge:
When Baylor College of Medicine (Baylor) decided to build a newhospital, it also planned to upgrade its existing data center inorder to ease space constraints and replace end-of-life Sunservers. It needed a smooth migration that would provideuninterrupted access to its SAP ERP system and other supportingsystems.
Solution:Baylor engaged IBM Premier Business Partner Mark III and broughtin the IBM Migration Factory team to provide the transition ofworkloads from 32 legacy Sun servers onto three IBM Power 570servers, running the IBM AIXoperating system. IBM MigrationFactory performed the server consolidation and migration ofBaylors software applications from the old Sun hardware platform
to the new IBM platform.
Benefits:
Achieves a 60 percent reduction in rack space footprint andbetter than 40 percent savings in both cooling and power
Improves overall performance by 30 percent
Improves payroll processing time by 213 percent
Nobody else had as
eloquent and simple a
design as IBM did. They
also offered very cost-
effective solutions.
Al Reineking,executive director of IT operations
and technical services, BaylorCollege of Medicine
Solution components:
SAP ERP
IBM Migration Factory
IBM Power 570
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The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of EgyptIBM enables growth with powerful, scalable solutions
Business Challenge:
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypts hardwareinfrastructure hosted their enterprise resource planningsystem, Oracle E-Business Suite. As they grew and addedmodules, server performance failed to meet business needs.They needed to implement a high performance, scalableinfrastructure, including a centralized storage system.
Solution:
The company implemented two IBM Power 570 servers one each for the main site and the remote site both runningIBM AIX. They implemented IBM PowerVM DynamicLogical Partitioning and Micro-Partitioning to minimize serveradministration and to minimize the number of processorsneeded. They also implemented IBM SystemStorage DS4800.
Benefits:
Improves performance while reducing the number ofprocessors from 16 to 7
Reduces risk and reduces the number of servers neededfor disaster recovery
Increases server utilization by 35 percent and supports
71 percent more users
Our new IBM
infrastructure provides us
with improved performance,
availability
and scalability to manageour growth.
The Coca-Cola BottlingCompany of Egypt
Solution Components:
IBM Power 570
IBM AIX
IBM PowerVM DynamicLogical Partitioning and MicroPartitioning
IBM System Storage DS4800
MUP03005-USEN-00
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)Rewriting the rules on IT investment to facilitate tomorrows healthcare innovations
Business Challenge
UPMC, Pennsylvanias largest integrated healthcare deliverynetwork, sought to lower the cost and complexity of IT infrastructure
to enable the continued investment in next-generation clinical
systems and to lay the foundation for the best possible patient care.
Solution
Now in the middle of a landmark, 8-year strategic partnership with
IBM, UPMC is transforming its systems through consolidation,standardization and virtualization. Relying on IBM products andservices, the mid-stream effort has already resulted in the reduction of
hundreds of servers across the UPMC network and achieved more
than a quantum improvement in resource efficiency. It has
fundamentally changed the
link between processing and resource needs enabling it to meet an
ambitious clinical agenda with a far lower rate of IT investment growth.
Benefits
$30 million in capital and operating cost reductions
150 percent increase in processing capacity with no increase
in IT support costs
40 percent reduction in IT infrastructure floor space requirements,
freeing up space for revenue generating services67 percent reduction in number of physical servers
Considering that IBM and UPMC
are only midway through this trans-formation project, the results have been
impressive. We have already proven that
standardization, along with aggressive
implementation of virtualization, yields
unprecedented productivity and
efficiency.Paul Sikora, VP of IT Transformation, UPMC
Solution Components IBM BladeCenter
IBM Component Infrastructure Roadmap
IBM Global Technology Services
IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences
IBM Research
IBM STG Services
IBM SWG Services
IBM System p, System x, System z
IBM Tivoli product suite
IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage
IBM WebSphere Business Integration
IBM WebSphere Application Server
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IBM Power Systems Success Stories
Power technologies provide real business value
Annual savings of over $500,000 + accelerated newservices deployment from 1 month to 2 days
Reduced application downtime + increasedflexibility to dynamically scale and
change workload capacity
Fewer processor cores than previousSun servers reduced software and
management costs + PowerVM simplifiedthe effort to deploy or scale new services
Consolidated and virtualized 76 servers to 6reducing complexity and total cost of ownership
of global IT infrastructure
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IBMS 10-year march to UNIX leadership
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UNIX Server Rolling Four Quarter Average Revenue Share
POWER4Dynamic LPARs
POWER6Live PartitionMobility
POWER5Micro-Partitioning
POWER7Workload OptimizedLeadership
dot.combubbleburst
globaleconomicrecession
the largest shift of customer spending in UNIX history
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Why AIX is the Premier UNIX Platform Today
Strong, stable, non-disruptive roadmap
Improved Efficiency through Virtualization
Outstanding Performance
Innovation through integrated Development
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Network CentricComputing
AIX V2 & V3Establishment inthe market:
- RISC Support
- UNIX credibility
- Open Sys. Stds..
- Dynamic Kernel
- JFS and LVM
- SMIT
AIX V3.2.5Maturity:
- Stability
- Quality
AIX V4.1/4.2SMP Scalability:
- POWERPC spt.- 4-8 way SMP- Kernel Threads- Client/Server pkg- NFS V3- CDE- UNIX95 branded- NIM- > 2GB filesystems
-HACMP Clustering- POSIX 1003.1,1003.2, XPG4- Runtime Linking- Java 1.1.2
AIX V4.3Higher levels of
scalability:- 24-way SMP- 64-bit HW support- 96 GB memory- UNIX98 branded- TCP/IP V6- IPsec- Web Sys. Mgr.- LDAP Dir. Server.
- Workload Mgr- Java JDT/JIT- Direct I/O- Alt. Disk Install- Exp/Bonus CDs
DistributedClient-Server
1986-1992 1994-1996 1997-1999
Flexible ResourceManagement:
- POWER4+ spt.- Dynamic LPAR- Dynamic CUoD- New 64bit kernel- 512GB mem- JFS2- 16 TB f ilesystems
- UNIX03 branded- Concurrent I/O- MultiPath I/O- Flex LDAP Client- XSSO PAM spt
e-BusinessComputing
Open Systems
Workstations
AIX Evolution Over Twenty years of Progress
AIX/6000
Uni-processor 4-8 way SMP 24-way SMP 32-way SMP
AIX 7Future of UNIX:-256 core/1024 treadscalability-POWER7Exploitation-Domain basedRBAC- AIX ProfileManager-WPAR
enhancements-AIX 5.2 in a WPAR-PowerVMvirtualized storage-LVM SSD support-Terabyte segment
2010
On DemandBusiness
2001-2002
64/256-way SMT
AIX 5L V5.3Advanced
Virtualization:- POWER5 support- 64-way SMP- SMT- MicroPartitions- Virt I/O Server- Partition Load Mgr- NFS Version 4- Adv. Accounting
- Scaleable VG- JFS2 Shrink- SUMA- SW RAS features- POSIX Realtime
2004-2005
AIX 5L V5.1/5.2
SmarterPlanet
2007
AIX 6Enterprise RAS:-POWER6 support-Workload Partitions-Application Mobility-Continuous Avail.
-Storage Keys-Dynamic tracing-Software FFDC-Recovery Rtns-Concurrent MX
-Trusted AIX-RBAC-Encrypting JFS2-AIX Security Expert-Director Console
New EnterpriseData Center
1024-way SMT4
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PowerVM Virtualization Architecture
Networks and network storage
On demand
resources
PowerHypervisor
Serviceprocessor
ProcessorsMemory
Linuxpartitions
Virtual Network
AIXDedicatedpartitions
Expansion slots
Virtual processors Virtual adapters
Local devices & storage
Workload management and provisioning
WPAR
WPAR
WPAR
VirtualI/O
server
Virtualnetwork
&storage
SLICLinuxkernels
AIXShared partitions
AIXkernels
VirtualI/O
server
Virtualnetwork
&storage
IBM i
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What is new for August 2010
AIX 7 The Future of UNIX
AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7
A new way to consolidate older workloads on POWER7
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Workload-Optimizing Systems
Vertical scalability for massive workloads with up to 256 cores/1024 threadsin a single AIX partition
Virtualization without limits Run AIX 5.2 in a WPAR to simplify consolidation of legacy environments on POWER7
Resiliency without downtime
Built in clustering to simplify configuration and management of scale-outworkloads and high availability solutions
Management with Automation
Profile based configuration management eases the managementof pools of AIX systems
AIX 7 -- The Future of UNIX
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subjectto change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives
only.Some features require the purchase of additional software components.
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AIX Binary Compatibility Guarantee
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Moving up to AIX 7
AIX 7 runs on your existing hardware Fully exploits POWER7 processor-based systems
Also exploits systems based on POWER4, POWER5, POWER6 processors
AIX 7 runs your existing applications Current applications will continue to run no need to recompile applications *
Even supports 32 bit applications created on AIX versions prior to AIX V5
Binary compatibility guarantee
Upgrade process Prior upgrade tools will support upgrade to AIX 7
Clients can upgrade directly to AIX 7 from AIX 6 and AIX V5
Free upgrade for customers with Software Maintenance Agreements (SWMA)
Upgrades are no charge within the same edition:
AIX 5.3 to AIX 7 Standard edition
AIX 6 Express Edition to AIX 7 Express Edition, etc,
*See general conditions at ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/compatibility
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AIX Scalability Evolution
AIX/6000
Uniprocessor
24
Threads
4-8Threads
256Threads
32-128Threads
1024Threads
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AIX 7* Hardware Enablement and Support
Terabyte Segment support
Designed to improve performance for workloads that use large amounts of memory
AIX kernel memory pinning
AIX 7 memory pinned by default to enhance performance
Hardware acceleration for Encrypting Filesystems, IPSec and TrustedExecution
Reduce processor workload for encryption
LVM Solid State Disk Support
SSD only Volume Groups, enhancements tofilemon to identify SSD candiates
Shared Memory interface to Barrier Synchronous Register
Reduce need for kernel extensions for BSR access* These features are also available in AIX 6 Technology Level 6
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AIX Workload Partitions (WPAR)
WPARs are designed to saveadministrator work by reducingthe number of AIX instances topatch
WPARs have much lowermemory resource requirements:
68 MB vs 1GB for an LPAR WPAR takes seconds to create
and LPARs minutes
Application mobility muchsimpler to organize than LPM
Lots of WPARs on one AIX issimpler to monitor and controlthan monitoring across manyLPARs.
Rapid cloning is easy and letsyou use "disposable images" -simple to create, experiment andthrow away
Virtualized AIX operating
system environments within asingle AIX image
Each WPAR shares the singleAIX operating system
AIX 7 added the capability to
run AIX 5.2 in a WPAR*
Applications and users inside aWPAR cannot affect resourcesoutside the WPAR*
Each WPAR can have a
regulated share of processor,memory and other resources
Two types of WPAR
- System WPARs have separatesecurity and appear like acompletely separate OS
- Application WPARs are
manageability wrappers around asingle application
Top reasons to use WPARsWhat is it?
* Requires purchase of the AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7
product
NetworksDisk or NFS storage NetworksDisk or NFS storage
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AIX Workload Partitions can be used in LPARs
LPARAsia
LPAR LPAREMEA
LPARAmericas
VIOServer
DedicatedProcessorLPAR
Finance
DedicatedProcessorLPAR
Planning
WPAR #1BusinessIntelligence
WPAR #1MFG
WPAR #2Planning
WPAR #1eMail
WPAR #3
Billing
WPAR #2Test
Micro-partition Processor Pool
POWER Hypervisor
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WPAR Shared Applications Enables AdministrativeEfficiency
Workload
Partition
App Server#1
WorkloadPartition
Billing
WorkloadPartition
BI
Global filesystems//etc/usr application code/opt application code (or here)/var/tmp/appserver application code (or here)
System WPAR filesystems/ r/w - unique per WPAR/etc r/w - unique per WPAR
/usr r/o from global (typically)/opt r/o from global (typically)/var r/w - unique per WPAR/tmp r/w - unique per WPAR/appserver r/o from global/config r/w uniq per WPAR (example)
Global FS
//etc/usr/opt/var/tmp/appsvr
WPAR FSApp Server 1
WorkloadPartition
App Server
#2 WorkloadPartition
WebServer
Application installed in Global instance and used by multiple WPARs
WPAR FSApp Server 1
//etc/var/tmp/config
//etc/var/tmp/config
NFS
AIXglobal Instance
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AIX 7 WPAR Enhancements
Export of Fibre channel adapters to WPARs NPIV-like, but can work on any Fibre Channel adapter
Adds support for Fibre Channel tape
Kernel Extensions for WPARs Trusted kernel extensions may be loaded by the WPAR administrator
Extensions can be only for one WPAR or for entire system
Support for VIOS disks in WPARs VSCSI disks can be exported to a WPAR
This feature also available in AIX 6 Technology Level 6
Run AIX 5.2 inside of a Workload Partition Consolidate older environments on POWER7 processor-based systems
Requires AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7 available separately from AIX 7
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Introducing:AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7
A new licensed program product offering that allows customers tosimplify migrating their old, AIX 5.2 workloads to POWER7
Runs on top of AIX 7 and POWER7 processor-based server
Customer value Simplify consolidation of old workloads on new hardware
Reclaim floor space and eliminate hardware support for obsolete servers
Protects customer investment in application stacks
Offering includes phone and fix support for AIX 5.2
Enables advanced capabilities such as SMT4, Live Application Mobility and LivePartition Mobility
Provides a way for AIX 5.2 clients to move up to POWER7
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AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7
Client simply backs up existing legacy AIX 5.2environment and restores into an AIX 7 WPAR
Client applications continue to run in AIX 5.2environment with AIX 5.2 libraries
The SWMA for this offering will also provide how-to and limited defect support for the AIX 5.2operating system
POWER7 exploitation: SMT4, VIOS,MicroPartitioning and Mobility
Managed via IBM Systems Director WorkloadPartitions Manager or command line
AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7 will be a separately charged product built on AIX 7
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subjectto change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives
only.Some features require the purchase of additional software components.
POWER7
AIX 5.2 VersionedEnvironment
5.2 syscall compatibility layer
AIX 7 Native Environment
AIX 7 native syscalls
WPARA//var/tmp
/home
WPARB//var/tmp
/home
WPARD//var/tmp
/home
WPARC//var/tmp
/home
AIX 7 Kernel
/usr/opt
/usr/opt /usr
/opt
mksysbbackup
fromAIX 5.2
legacysystem
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When to use Workload Partitions
Requirement MicroPartitions Workload Partitions
Hardware enforced Isolation
Minimal number of AIX images
Server Consolidation
Greatest Flexibility
Cross system workload management
Move workload between systems
Most efficient use of hardware resources
Run AIX V5.2 on POWER7
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AIX Live Application Mobility
Can make it easier to consolidateworkloads from underutilizedservers
Can provide increased flexibilityto manage workloads by easilymoving the workload to another
system
Facilitates increased reliability byallowing workloads to be movedaway during planned outages
Automated, policy based
relocation can reduceadministrative workload
Provides a way to manageavailability and workload of your ITinfrastructure without significantlyimpacting end users
The capability to relocate arunning Workload Partition fromone system to another withoutrestarting the application
The application running insidethe WPAR resumes running
after the relocation is complete
Works with systems based onPOWER7, POWER6,POWER5 and POWER4processors
Requires the IBM PowerVMWorkload Partitions Manager forAIXproduct, a Systems Directoradvanced manager
Manual or automatic, policybased relocation
How it can help?What is it?
WorkloadPartition
QA
AIX # 2
WorkloadPartition
Data Mining
WorkloadPartition
App Server
WorkloadPartition
Web
AIX # 1
WorkloadPartition
Dev
WorkloadPartitione-mail
PowerVMWorkloadPartitionsManagerfor AIX
Policy
WorkloadPartitionBilling
Shared Storage (SAN or NFS)
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PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
Can make it easier to consolidateworkloads from underutilizedservers by facilitating the transferof workloads with almost no enduser impact
Can provide increased flexibility
to manage workloads by easilymoving the workload to anothersystem
Facilitates increased reliability byallowing workloads to be movedaway during planned outages
PowerVM Live Partition Mobilitycan provide for a much moreflexible and responsive ITinfrastructure by reducing the costand risk of rebalancing workloads
A PowerVM Enterprise Editionfeature that allows an entireLogical Partition (LPAR) to berelocated from one system toanother with almost no impactto the end user
The end user effect is a singledelay of two seconds when therelocation is completed
Supported by AIX 7, AIX 6, AIXV5.3 and Linux
PowerVM Live PartitionMobility requires that all I/O bevirtualized through the VirtualI/O server at the time of therelocation
How it can help?What is it?
Movement to adifferent serverwith no loss of
service
Virtualized SAN and Net work InfrastructureVirtualized SAN and Networ k Infrastructure
Live Partition Mobility requires the purchase ofthe optional PowerVM Enterprise Edition.
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Live Application Mobility
Live Mobility on Power Systems
Movement of theOS and
applications to adifferent serverwith no loss of
service
Virtualized SAN and Network Infrastructure
PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
Move an entire Logical Partition from one system to anotherwhile it is running with almost no impact to end users
Moves the entire LPAR including the operating system
Requires systems based on the POWER6 or POWER7processors, PowerVM Enterprise Edition, and all I/O must bethrough the Virtual I/O Server
Works with partitions running AIX 7, AIX 6, AIX V5.3 and Linux
Live Partition Mobility
AIXLive ApplicationMobility
Move a Workload Partition from one AIX system to another
AIX system while running with almost no impact to end users
Moves only the WPAR, the AIX operating system is notmoved
Requires the PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager, and allWPAR filesystems must be on shared storage
Works on systems based on POWER4 processors and later
Potential BenefitsImproved application availability
Energy savingBetter workload management
IBM P S t
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AIX Role Based Access Control (RBAC) with Domains
Can reduce the cost and complexity of securityadministration by allowing secure delegation ofadministrative tasks to non-privileged users
Enables a more secure IT infrastructure byreducing the need for so many privileged
administrators
Assigning roles to programs can reduce theneed for security exposures such as the use ofsetuidfor programs
Allows for new ways to delegate administrationduties between system administrators and non-administrative users
A capability of AIX that allowsprivileged administration tasksto be delegated to non-privileged users
Access to system resourcesare associated with roles that
are assigned to non-privilegedusers
Many roles are predefinedwhich can reduce the effort ofimplementing RBAC
Roles can also be associatedwith programs
Domain access can furtherlimit administrators to only workwith resources for a particularorganization (AIX 7/AIX 6 TL6)
How it can help?What is it?
UsersUsers Roles
AIX
Resources
AIX
Resources
BACKUP
Company A
DBA
Company A
BACKUPCompany Z
Company Z
Data
DBA
Company Z
Company A
Data
Domain supportProvides more granularityfor multi-tenant IT shops
IBM P S t
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AIX Encrypting Filesystem
Enables improved security byreducing unauthorized access todata, even by privileged users
Secure backups reduces theexposure of data compromisedwhen backup media is takenoutside of secure facilities
Automatic management ofprotection keys can reduce theadministrative effort of usingencrypted data
Provides the capability foradditional security for applications
that may have security designexposures
Automatically encrypt data in aJFS2 filesystem
Data can be protected fromaccess by privileged users
Backup in encrypted or clear
formatsAutomated key management -integrated into AIX securityauthentication
Each file encrypted with aunique key
Hardware offload toCryptographic adapter
No keys stored in clear in kernelmemory
A variety of AES, and RSA
cryptography keys supported
How it can help?What is it?
Always encrypted on disk
Data in clear in memory.
VMM
J2
Filesystem
CLiC
Crypto Lib
User and GroupKey Stores
Crypto Kernext
Kernel ucred openkey store
Login Authentication Module
Key Store
Mgt Cmds
BOS Cmds
Backup/Restore
Cp, mv, crfs, etc
IBM Power Systems
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AIX Security Expert
Can reduce the cost andcomplexity of securityadministration by allowingfederated management of securityprofiles across multiple servers
Enables a more secure IT
infrastructure by reducing theeffort of maintaining systemsecurity
Check functionality can provide
additional security by validatingthat the security profile for each
system matches the actualsecurity settings
Allows for new ways to efficientlymanage security across multipleAIX systems
A centralized securitymanagement tool that cancontrol over 300 securitysettings from a single console
Administrators can start from aLow, Medium, High or
Sarbanes-Oxley securitytemplate and customize settingsto met business requirements
Security settings can beexported and imported as asecurity profile to multiple
systems
Security profiles can be storedin an LDAP directory for ease ofdistribution
AIX Security Expert was firstincluded in AIX V5.3 TL5
How it can help?What is it?
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AIX & Power Systems Security Certifications
AIX 5200-06 CAPP/EAL4+
Application: 01/11/05Final report: 10/26/05Certificate: 12/14/05
AIX 5L 5200-05 andPitbull LSPP/EAL4+
Application :01/11/05Certificate issued: 05/16/06
AIX 5300-05
LSPP/EAL4+Pitbull product Supports P5, P4Certificate issued: 12/19/06
Pitbull MLS Ported toAIX 5300-03
Pitbull product available tocustomers Dec 31, 05
AIX 5300-04 CAPP/EAL4+Supports P5, P4Certificate issued: 12/19/06
AIX 7100-00)CAPP/RBACPP/LSPP/EAL4+
Supports P7, P6, P5, P4
Legend
AIX V5.2AIX V5.3AIX 6AIX 7 (Planned)VIOSPOWER6
Certification History
AIX 4.2 C2: Apr 24, 1997AIX 4.3 C2: May 6, 19987AIX 5.2 CAPP/EAL4+ : Nov 4, 2002
POWER4 HW CAPP/EAL4+ : Apr 2003AIX 5.2 ML1 CAPP/EAL4+ : Sept 8, 2003AIX 5.2 ML6 CAPP/EAL4+ : Dec 14, 2005AIX 5.2 ML5 and Pitbull LSPP: May 16, 2006AIX 5.3 TL5 and Pitbull LSPP: May 16, 2006AIX 5.2 TL4 & VIOS CAPP/EAL4+: Dec 16, 2006POWER6: Dec, 2007AIX 6: May 26, 2008AIX 7: Planned 2010
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subjectto change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only
VIOS EAL4+
Included with AIX 53.00-04CAPP/EAL4+
POWER6 HardwareEAL4+
Dynamic LPAR withMicroPartitioning
AIX 6100-00)CAPP/RBACPP/LSPP/EAL4+
MLS capabilities integratedinto standard AIX product
One certification for 3Protection Profiles
Supports P6, P5, P4
2006 2007 20102005
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Cluster Aware AIX
Easily create clusters of AIX instances for scale-out computing or high availability
Designed to:
Significantly simplify cluster configuration, construction, and maintenance
Designed to improve availability by reducing the time to discover failures
Capabilities such as common device naming help simplify administration
Built in event management and monitoring
A foundation for future AIX capabilities and the next generation of PowerHA
SystemMirror and PowerVM
Designed to simplify construction and management of clusters of AIX
systems for scale-out computing and high availability
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Cluster Aware AIX Exploiters
Legacy AIX
PowerHASystem Mirror
TSA HMCIBM
StorageHPC
DB2IBM
Director
MonitoringAPI
ClusterMonitoring
Group Services
Cluster AdminUI
Cluster CFGRepository
Resource Mgr Services
Bundled Resource Managers
ClusterMessaging
MessagingAPI
Legacy RSCT
RSCT Consumers
VIOS
MonitoringAPI
ClusterMonitoring
Group Services
Cluster AdminUI
Cluster CFGRepository
Resource Mgr Services
Bundled Resource Managers
ClusterMessaging
MessagingAPI
RSCT With Cluster Aware AIX
Cluster Aware AIX
Cluster
Repository
Cluster
Messaging
Cluster
Monitoring
Cluster
Events
CAA APIs and UIs
Redesigned Layers Integrated to CAA Capabilities
RSCT and Cluster Aware AIX together provide the foundation of strategic Power Systems SW
RSCT-CAA integration enables compatibility with a diverse set of dependent IBM products
RSCT integration with CAA extends simplified cluster management along with optimized and robust cluster monitoring,failure detection, and recovery to RSCT exploiters on Power / AIX
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AIX Non-intrusive Reliability Features
Designed to increase availabilityby reducing problemdetermination time and effort
Can reduce the impact ofproblems by minimizing theintrusiveness of problemdetermination compared totraditional methods
These new service featuresprovide an infrastructure that canfundamentally change the OSproblem determination process for
the better
A number of new reliability,availability and serviceabilityfeatures that are designed toimprove system and applicationreliability
New features include:
Live Dump Firmware Assisted Dump Enhanced First Failure
Data Capture (FFDC) forAIX
Enhanced features: Lightweight malloc debug Lightweight memory trace Consistency checkers Component trace
How it can help?What is it?
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AIX Storage Keys
Can provide for higher AIXavailability by reducing thenumber of unplanned outages dueto intermittent memory overlay
Enables complex applications
that use large amounts of memoryto protect core functions frommemory overlay
This new capability can reducethe likelihood of an entire class ofintermittent application and AIX
problems
Exploitation of a POWER7 andPOWER6 processors hardwarefeature to provide additionalisolation of kernel andapplication data
Storage keys can prevent
invalid changes to memorycause by programming errors
Application use of storage keysis enabled in AIX V5.3
AIX Kernel exploitation ofPOWER6 storage keys isincluded in AIX 7 and AIX 6
How it can help?What is it?
UserCode
UserData
Files
WS DB2
KernelCode
KernelData
JFS2 LVM VMM . . . SCSI ENT FC
ApplicationAddress Space
AIX DriversAIX Kernel
UNIX Kernel Address Space
UserCode
UserData
Files
WS DB2
KernelCode
KernelData
JFS2 LVM VMM . . . SCSI ENT FC
ApplicationAddress Space
AIX DriversAIX Kernel
UNIX Kernel Address Space
UserCode
UserData
Files
WS DB2
KernelCode
KernelData
JFS2 LVM VMM . . . SCSI ENT FC
ApplicationAddress Space
AIX DriversAIX Kernel
AIX Kernel Address Space
UserCode
UserData
Files
WS DB2
KernelCode
KernelData
JFS2 LVM VMM . . . SCSI ENT FC
ApplicationAddress Space
AIX DriversAIX Kernel
AIX Kernel Address SpaceAfter POWER6 Storage Keys
Before POWER6 Storage Keys
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AIX probevueDynamic Tracing
Enables the possibility todramatically reduce the amount oftime and effort to debug and tuneapplications
Can reduce the performance
impact to the system compared tousing traditional tracing methods
Dynamic tracing offers an entirelydifferent way for developers andsystem administrators totroubleshoot application problems
The capability to dynamicallyextract information about aprogram as it is running
Trace points can be added orremoved dynamically withoutrecompiling or restarting the
application
Includes a new language, vue,to define the desired actionwhen a probe point is reached
Support for C, C++, FORTRANand Java language programs
How it can help?What is it?
FormattedI/O
User Kernel
Probe Location
User Process CodeSome thread
hits probe point(1)
Branches to probecode (2)
Probecode
(3)Returns toprobe point(4)
Threadcontinues
execution(5)
Trace Consumer
Trace Fileor
Trace Output
Trace Buffers
E-code
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PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager for AIX
Can make it easier to consolidateworkloads from underutilizedservers by providing a single pointof management for all WPARs andenablement for Live ApplicationMobility
Can reduce cost and complexitythrough centralized managementof WPARs
Enables increased flexibility byallowing administrators to quicklycreate, clone or delete Workload
Partitions from one system toanother
Supports systems based onPOWER4 or later processors
Policy based relocation andfederated management of WPARs
provides new ways to manageyour IT infrastructure
A product that federatesmanagement of WPARs acrossmultiple systems
WPARs can be created,cloned, stopped, started andmonitored from a single location
Includes enablement for LiveApplication Mobility
The WPAR Manager is aadvanced manager plug-in tothe IBM Systems Director
The WPAR Manager isavailable as a component in theAIX Enterprise Edition or as aseparate product
How it can help?What is it?
WPAR AgentAIX
System/Application WPARs
WPAR AgentAIX
System/Application WPARs
WPAR AgentAIX
System/Application WPARs
WPAR AgentAIX
System/Application WPARs
WPAR AgentAIX
System/Application WPARs
WPAR AgentAIX
System/Application WPARs
IBMWorkloadPartitionsManagerfor AIX
Browser
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AIX Systems Director Console for AIX (pConsole)
Can reduce the amount of effortand cost associated withmanaging the AIX OS
Web access to administrativetasks can simplify systemsmanagement
Consistent user interface withIBM Systems Director and theWPAR Manager can reduceretraining and other administrativecosts
The combination of Web accessto administration tools and theability to execute administrativetasks on multiple systems canchange the way you manage theAIX OS
A Web based managementtool that provides easy accessto common systemadministration tasks
Administrators can accessSystems Management Interface
Tool (SMIT) menus from abrowser
Graphical user interface is fastand fully integrated with IBMSystems Director
All necessary components forthe Console are included in AIX
The Distributed CommandExecution Manager (DCEM)feature of the Console allows anadministrative task to run onmultiple systems at once
How it can help?What is it?
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AIX Automatic Variable Page Size
Can improve overall systemperformance which could improvethe amount of work done per Wattof energy
Automated page size tuning canreduce the amount of effort and
cost associated with managing akey aspect of performance tuning
Since this feature is turned on
by default, it improves your abilityto get the most out of yoursystems based on POWER6
processors
This self tuning aspect of AIX
can improve performance whilereducing administrative workload
AIX exploitation of POWER6 orlater hardware that supportsvariable page size
AIX will automatically selectoptimal page size to providebetter performance
Kernel will choose between 4Kand 64K pages, including a mixwithin a memory region
Supports process data, heap,stack, shared memory,anonymous mmap() memory
Enabled by default withadministrative controls to turnoff or change aggressiveness toupsize
Required AIX 7 or AIX 6 and
POWER6 or later processorbased systems
How it can help?What is it?
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System N
AIX 7 Profile Manager (Formerly AIX Runtime Expert)
System A System N System C
SetExtract Compare
Simplified configuration using the AIX Profile Manager
Systems Director plug-in that is designed to simplify consistent AIXconfiguration across multiple systems
Traditional server configuration
OS Configuration and Tuning
Environment Variables
Configuration Files
Boot LV Settings
CLI Utilities
Apply and maintain approachesScripts, ftp, rsh, ssh, documentation,3rd party tools, mksysb, etc.
System A System NSystem BSystem A System NSystem B
XML Profiles
Env var XYZ=Yes
AIX security profile
.tuneable N
Env var XYZ=YesAIX security profiletuneableN
Env var XYZ=YesAIX security profiletuneableN
Env var XYZ=YesAIX security profiletuneableN
System Administrator
Systems N
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AIX is available in three different editions: AIX Standard Edition
Suitable for most UNIX workloads Vertical scalability up to 256 cores (AIX 7)
64 cores (AIX 6)
AIX Enterprise Edition AIX plus enterprise management
Includes AIX Standard Edition plus
Systems Director Enterprise Edition and
the Workload Partitions Manager for AIX
Vertical scalability up to 256 cores (AIX 7)64 cores (AIX 6)
AIX Express Edition
Lower priced edition targeted a low end servers andconsolidation of smaller workloads on larger servers
Includes most of the functionality of AIX Standard Edition
Vertical scalability is limited to 4 cores and 8GB of memory per core in a singlepartition
Clients can use multiple AIX Express Edition partitions in a single larger server
Clients can mix multiple AIX editions in the same server
AIX Editions
AIX StandardEdition
AIX EnterpriseEdition
AIX ExpressEdition
Note: AIX V5.3 is only available in a Standard Edition
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AIX Enterprise Edition
AIX Enterprise Edition includes:
AIX 7 or AIX 6 Standard Edition plus
WPAR Manager
Systems Director Enterprise Edition
IBM System Director
Active Energy Manager
VMControl (including Image Management & System Pools)
Network Control
Transition Manager for HP SIM
Service and Support Manager
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)
AIX Enterprise Edition is a single offering that brings together AIX with key
service management capabilities that are designed to: Improve availability through access to relevant real-time information and predictive
monitoring to avoid future problems
Enhance operational efficiency through visualization of resources and centralizeddeployment and management of virtualized AIX environments
Provide accurate assessment of system resource usage
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AIX Enterprise Edition Key Features Live Application Mobility
Relocate Workload Partitions between systems with almost no client impact
Energy Management Collecting and report current and historical usage, and controlling energy usage
Virtual Server Management Create and manage virtual machines, manage virtual machine relocation, and managing virtual workloads
in system pools
Manage WPARs across multiple systems Centralize the creation, replication, and starting of WPARs across multiple systems
Automatically discover IT components and their relationships Ideal for managing dynamic virtualized environments
Monitor virtualized resources Efficient management begins with comprehensive performance information
Predictive monitoring and capacity management Leverage real time monitoring in data warehouse to provide advanced analytics for capacity planning and
proactive monitoring
Provides a visual representation of the components Assists understanding of complex application dependencies
Network Management Discover, monitor, and manage multi-vendor network devices and automate network management tasks
Monitor utilization and configuration changes Useful for problem determination and failure analysis
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Simplified WPAR Management
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Clients get business-level views and managementof service availability
Consolidated monitoring of physical and virtual resources
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Designed to improve mean-time-to-
recovery by relating virtual to physicalresources
Data warehouse provides Side-by-side
real-time and historical data to assist
problem determination and planning
Out-of-the-box reporting allowsclients to quickly provide executive
level reports and identify resource
bottlenecks
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Power Systems Monitoring - VIOS View
Shows hownetworkinterfaces aremapped toLPARS
Network and Disk Mapping and Utilization Information
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Overall Frame Utilization
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WPAR Workspace
NOTE: Right button click on Linkicon to access menu ofsupplemental WPAR WSs
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Use existing ITM agents and data that are stored in theTivoli Data Warehouse
Create new metrics based on combining existing date
Predictive trending and forecast reports
Pre-configured reports
Extensible
ScenariosWhat will my resources look like
tomorrow, next week and next month?What IT resources should I worry
about?Will I have enough capacity to get me
through Monday?
What It Does
Provide capacity monitoring through the data collected by Tivoli Monitoring Automates Performance analysis and reporting Enables prediction of application bottlenecks and creation of alerts for potential service threats.
Advanced Performance Analytics
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Predictive Trending Predictive trending on key performance
indicators
Linear trending model Configurable
Simple, open and predictable
New Tivoli Monitoring attributes for use incharts and situations
Trend strength, trend direction
Time to threshold, value in 7 days, 30 days and90 days
Use trend information in situations I predict I have 2 weeks before I hit 95% Disk
Utilization and I am 70% confident and its getting
worse
Leverages Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Overlays to represent Trends
Icons in Tables
Time
CPU
Predicted trend
Threshold PredictedCPU Violation
Actual Monitor Data
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Application discovery complements platformcomponent asset data
Better management through better information
Discovers the system and application
data center resources
Discovers the relationships and
dependencies between the system and
application resources
Visually depict the dependencies between
Data Center between the application andsystem resources
Discovers and tracks changes to data
center resources
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)
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Reduce the time to deploy workloads using virtual images
Discover and manage heterogeneous AIX image repositories
Import, capture and catalog virtual images from existing systems
Dynamically provision virtual server, storage and network resources
DeployVirtual
Machines
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)CaptureVirtual
Machines
ImageRepository
SoftwareSoftwareapplicationapplicationSoftwareSoftwareapplicationapplication
OperatingOperatingSystemSystem
OperatingOperatingSystemSystem
MetadataMetadataMetadataMetadata
SoftwareSoftwareapplicationapplicationSoftwareSoftwareapplicationapplication
OperatingOperatingSystemSystem
OperatingOperatingSystemSystem
MetadataMetadataMetadataMetadata
Virtual image
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Balance resources with Live Partition Mobility
Dynamically adjust virtual machines resource allocations.
- Allowing unallocated resources to be used by a virtual machine.
- Allowing resource allocation adjustments to be made between virtual machine.
Virtual server mobility between host systems.- Allocate resources on the target host.
- Move the virtual machine in-memory state to target host.
-
De-allocating resources on the source host.
Virtualization
Compute Memory
Virtual MachineVirtual MachineVirtual Machine
Virtualization
Compute MemoryIO / Network
Virtual Machine Virtual MachineVirtual Machine
IO / Network
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OSSW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
SW
OS
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Dynamic virtual server placement of workloads
Automates virtual image mobility for optimal utilization and resilience
Optimizes virtual assets for performance, availability and energy use
Integrates server, storage and network virtualization
System pools enable automated mobility for higherworkload availability
Compute Network StorageMemoryCompute Network StorageMemoryCompute Network StorageMemory
Virtualization
Compute Network StorageMemory
Virtualization
Compute Network StorageMemoryCompute Network StorageMemory
IT Resources Virtual Images System Pools
Mobility
Optimized for Availability Performance
Energy
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Electrical energy and thermal trendingReport electrical power at therack and server level
Manage thermal energy at therack and server level
Analyze trends in energy use
Performance per watt display
Calculate energy costs fortargeted resources
Trend electrical power use overtime
Trend temperature over time
Note: Energy monitoring and control capabilities
vary by system.
Energy costcalculator
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Platform Management
Integrated network management and monitoring
StorageServerNetwork
Service Management
Unified view of servers, storage,and network devices
Basic lifecycle management ofnetwork switches
Network device topology collectionand visualization
Integrated single sign on launch ofvendor - based devicemanagement tools
Converged Ethernet networkdevice support (FCoCEE) vianative support and vendor tools
IT environment
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AIX Enterprise Edition
Provides the foundation for Enterprise Service Management in an easy toorder solution at an attractive price
Designed to improve operational efficiency of managing a PowerVM
virtualized environment
Includes IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition for comprehensiveplatform and service management
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AIX StandardEdition
AIX StandardEdition
AIX EnterpriseEdition
AIX EnterpriseEdition
AIX ExpressEdition
AIX ExpressEdition
Capability
AIX Express Edition
AN edition of AIX priced for smaller workloads AIX 6 and 7 feature Express Edition
AIX 5.3 is only available in a Standard Edition
Intended for two deployment situations1. Entry price on entry servers and blades
2. Consolidation of smaller workloads on enterprise servers
AIX Express Edition terms are designed for small workloads Vertical scalability limited to 4 core maximum partition size
8 GB memory per core maximum
Flexibility to optimize formultiple workloads Run any combination
of AIX Editions on a server
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AIX Express Edition can improve the economics of consolidation
Example: Consolidate eight 4-way POWER6 520s into a 24 way POWER7 770
Old price with AIX
Standard Edition
AIX License + SWMA
List price 24 cores x $1,950
Total (list) $46,800
(U.S. prices shown)
With AIX Express
AIX License + SWMA
List price 24 cores x $1,000
Total (list) $24,000
Savings of $22,800(U.S. prices shown)
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IBM License Metric Tool
Common IBM monitoring tool forSWG, Power Systems & SystemsDirector software products
Provides a data center view of IBMsoftware licenses
Simplifies customer license tracking,compliance & audit reporting
ILMT does NOT report back to IBM
Tool Provides*:
Software inventory
Web-based administration
Standard & custom license reports
Audit reportsRequired for clients using AIX Express Edition on Medium and Large servers
*Implementation of some features will be staged over time
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AIX 7 Hardware Support
Systems based on POWER4, PowerPC 970, POWER5, POWER6 and
POWER7 processors are supported
32 and 64-bit applications will continue to run unchanged on AIX 7
64-bit kernel only
*Complete details on AIX binary compatibility can be found at http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/os/compatibility/
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AIX support for POWER7
AIX supports Power 750, 770, and 780 withPOWER7 processors offering moreperformance, energy efficiency and scalability
Initial AIX Levels supported AIX 6 Technology Level 4 SP2 (POWER 750/755) (GA 2/12)
AIX 6 Technology Level 4 SP3 (POWER 770/780) (GA 3/5)
AIX 5.3 Technology Level 11 SP3 (GA 3/5)
April AIX Technology Levels
AIX 6 Technology Level 5 (PS700, PS701, PS702) AIX 5.3 Technology Level 12 (PS700, PS701, PS702)
Prior Technology levels AIX 6 Technology Levels 2 and 3
AIX 5.3 Technology Levels 9 and 10
Plans subject to change without notice
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POWER7 Platform SupportMove up to POWER7 on your current AIX Technology Level!
POWER7 based Systems provide two modes for each LPAR POWER7 mode
Fully exploit unique POWER7 capabilities
AIX 6.1 TL4 SP2 (Power 750/755), SP3 (Power 770/780) and later
AIX 7
POWER6 & POWER6+ modes Allows Live Partition Mobility to POWER6 systems
AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 TL2 & TL3
POWER7 Features exploited by AIX- Energy Management (available in all modes)
Per-Partition energy management
- POWER7 Mode 4 thread Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT)
1024 Threads / 256 cores partition size (AIX 7 only) Double precision Vector Scalar Extension (VSX)
32 Storage Protection Keys (8 for applications)
Core
L3
MC0 MC1PowerBus
GX
EI3 (Elastic Interface) I/O
EI3 (Elastic Interface) I/O
Memor
yI/O
MemoryI/O
MemoryI/O
MemoryI/O
GX
L2
Cores: 8
L2: On Chip
L3: On Chip
Technology: 45nm
Transistors: >1B
Size: 567 mm2
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Why should you move up to AIX 7 or AIX 6?
More performance on POWER7 AIX 7 and AIX 6 can provide substantially more performance on POWER7 than AIX V5.3
AIX 7 supports massive workloads with up to 256 cores / 1024 threads
Access to new features Capabilities like WPARs, Role Based Access Control, AIX Profile Manager are designed to
improve security and administrative efficiency
AIX V5.3 is nearing End of Life End of Marketing announced effective April 2011
AIX 7 will support running AIX 5.2 in a WPAR Excellent way to consolidate old workloads running on less efficient hardware
Its FREE! Customers with software maintenance agreements (SWMA) can upgrade for no additional charge
within an Edition:
AIX 5.3 to AIX 7 Standard edition
AIX 6 Express Edition to AIX 7 Express Edition, etc,