Over the past few years, I have picked up a number of tips and techniques to help when working with LPARs on Power Systems that use VIOS for networking. VIOS can provide highly performant, resilient and redundant networking capabilities to IBM i, AIX and Linux LPARs. While customers are comfortable with VIOS networking capabilities once […]
Latest Power figures: reasons to be cheerful?
IBM reported its figures for the second quarter of 2014 in July and, once again, revenue from Power Systems was down. Its Systems and Technology division’s $3.3bn takings fell 11% year over year. Revenue from Power Systems fell 28%. In the previous couple of quarters, Power Systems revenues were down 22% and 31%. Such numbers […]
A message from our new AIX expert, Anthony English
When I saw that PowerWire had hit the virtual newsstands, I naturally wondered whether it was short on material about AIX. As it turns out, the editor was more than happy to add some antipodean Unix articles to the mix. As an AIX techie from way back (I worked on the first commercial release, AIX […]
AIX tech tip: make friends with the VIOS command syntax
If you are familiar with running commands on AIX, you may have logged onto the Virtual I/O Server and found the syntax frustrating. For example, the following command on AIX will list disks: lsdev –Cc disk But when you’re logged into the restricted shell on the VIOS (usually as the user ‘padmin’), that will give […]
Power p beats Oracle’s Exadata in Unix server punch-up
Power Systems running AIX cost less to run than Oracle’s new Exadata boxes, according to a new report published by IBM. American analyst International Technology Group (ITG) weighed up the three-year costs and performance of the two heavyweight combatants slugging it out in the Unix server war. And while some pundits tipped Oracle’s next-gen cohort […]
Events: APSU holds three big Power8 launch events
Big British IBM business partner APSU is holding three major events to fly the flag for Power Systems. Its Technology Showcase events take place at Manchester United FC’s Old Trafford ground on June 24, London’s Canary Wharf on July 9 and the Silverstone racing circuit in Northamptonshire on September 16. Sky News presenter Martin Stanford […]