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Featured Post Size Up Your Disks in AIX by Anthony English -- 1/23/2012 9:11 PM If your AIX environment has disks of different sizes it can be difficult to keep track of just how big each one is. Of course, you can use the lspv command, but only for the Physical Volumes (disks) that are members of active Volume Groups (VGs). If you want to check the size of a disk even if it's not in a VG, use the getconf command. Latest Posts Power Systems Continue to 10-count HP and Oracle, Plus IBM Beats Street in 4Q11 by Chris Maxcer -- 1/25/2012 7:06 PM IBM released its 4Q11 financial report last week, and while the company beat Wall Street’s expectations, its Systems & Technology segment offered up mixed results: Power Systems are still throwing devastating upper cuts to HP and Oracle/Sun while the mainframe business took a nap. Size Up Your Disks in AIX by Anthony English -- 1/23/2012 9:11 PM If your AIX environment has disks of different sizes it can be difficult to keep track of just how big each one is. Of course, you can use the lspv command, but only for the Physical Volumes (disks) that are members of active Volume Groups (VGs). If you want to check the size of a disk even if it's not in a VG, use the getconf command. IBM Posts Wicked Cool Power Systems Videos by Chris Maxcer -- 1/18/2012 7:33 PM IBM has posted a pair of excellent new Power Systems-focused videos. One is about Watson tech for use in other industries than game shows, and the other is about Ersi migrating to IBM Power Systems for PowerVM for SAP applications. Both are worth the few minutes it takes to watch them. Get the sandwich ready and hit "Play." IBM Promotes Power Systems Special Offers by Chris Maxcer -- 1/11/2012 6:51 PM IBM has created an area of its site where it does a friendly job of highlighting its special offers and promotions, and this is the key: friendly. IBM’s announcement letters and Business Partner communications were all accurate and specific, but you really had to pay attention to figure out what was available and the basics for how it all worked. How to Assign More Disk to rootvg in AIX by Anthony English -- 1/9/2012 6:53 PM This tip shows you how to grow the existing disk in rootvg without any outage on the AIX logical partition. It's important to have enough spare disk in rootvg -- the AIX OS volume group -- as it contains critical file systems such as /, /usr, /var and /tmp. rootvg can also be used for paging space and system dump devices, as well as user file systems, so it's helpful to give it some head room. You may just need the extra disk space one day.		Browse by Category Administration ( 46 ) AIX 7.1 ( 20 ) Availability ( 15 ) Events ( 13 ) Hot News ( 116 ) Integration ( 10 ) Performance ( 24 ) Power at Work ( 52 ) PowerVM ( 17 ) Security ( 15 ) Uncategorized ( 1 ) Get Newsletters Power AIX Pro Tips & Tricks PowerITPro Tips Subscribe
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