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Administration
This quick tip provides some insight into what to expect when configuring tape drives on AIX with Virtual Fibre Channel adapters, the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS), and NPIV.
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Skybot Software, a Help/Systems, LLC company, has released Skybot Scheduler 2.0 its Web-based enterprise scheduler and workload automation solution for AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows, and Linux servers. Skybot Scheduler 2.0 now lets users integrate Microsoft SQL Server jobs into their enterprise schedule, as well as schedule and manage SQL Server jobs.
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When using multiple LPARs on a single Power System, it can be important to understand the overall utilization of processing capability, across all LPARs in the shared processor pool. Utilization data can be viewed from the LPARs using the lparstat command. However, for this to work, the LPAR properties must be configured appropriately.
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Halcyon Software has released Enterprise Console 8.7, a solutions that centralizes management for all systems alerts from IBM i, AIX, Windows, and Linux. IT managers and network administrators can manage servers across different sites or countries from a single location -- from a single PC screen, they can view and manage alerts generated from servers, applications, and SNMP devices, including hubs, routers, and switches.
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Regardless of what you know or “think” you know about the PCI DSS, always remember this: The purpose of complying with the requirements outlined in the DSS is to ensure that, should a breach of credit card data occur, your organization can accurately recreate the sequence of events and chain of custody associated with that breach of cardholder data.
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Crossroads Systems has announced new operating system support for SPHiNX, virtual tape appliance that serves as a disaster recovery solution for mid-range servers.
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If you are planning on configuring your LPARs with dual virtual I/O servers connected to SCSI storage using LVM mirroring, then you may find this tip interesting.
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While we haven't extensively covered cloud computing yet at Power IT Pro, there are a handful of well-respected players offering AIX-focused professionals the ability to serve up Power Systems-based servers from the so-called clouds.
Connectria is one, and I know the company serves up a variety of AIX-focused configurations for several dozen customers, large and small. The latest company to invest in IBM Power Systems cloud offerings is
Logicalis, which is offering its new Enterprise Power Cloud service -- based on IBM Power 770-class systems capable of supporting multi-tenancy running AIX and i5/OS virtual servers.
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IBM has released a new .pdf detailing service and support best practices for AIX, as well as updated its AIX support lifecycle information page. The latter provides a handy table of AIX Technology Level (TL) fix support release dates and end of availability. Basically, IBM is now offering three years of new fix support for each TL, and to ease the burden on administrators, IBM will only have one TL update per year for each version of AIX -- but service packs for TLs will still be released several times each year.
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You might have noticed a disturbance in the Force on February 3, 2011. On that auspicious date, the Internet officially ran out of IPv4 addresses. What does that mean for you? Before I answer that, let’s recap the story so far: A long time ago (1981) in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency far, far away, the Internet as we know it was invented. The several inventors decided to give their nascent network four billion unique addresses, which seemed reasonable at the time, given the Earth’s population had barely reached this number itself. Then, last Wednesday, we ran out.
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