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November 2007
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Global PowerAIX Community Newsletter
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Greetings!
Welcome to the Global PowerAIX Community
Newsletter. The newsletter is available to all
registered members of the PowerAIX Community.
The Global PowerAIX Community consists of a
network of local and global collaborative
activities
related to the use of the IBM Power and AIX 6
products and related issues. Through local
based
User Groups (UGs) throughout the world and a
global
on-line community, members are constantly
endorsing, evaluating, learning and
communicating
experiences, ideas as well as technical and
business
expertise - about Power and AIX 5L products,
tools,
and solutions to help solve business
problems. Learn
more . . .
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AIX Version 6.1 Operating System |
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IBM is making available a new version of AIX
6, which will include significant new
capabilities for virtualization, security
features, availability features, and
manageability.
AIX V6.1 is the first generally available
version of AIX V6.
AIX V6.1 features include:
- Workload Partitions (WPAR) -
software-based virtualization
- Live Application Mobility with the IBM
Workload Partitions Manager for
- 64-bit kernel for higher scalability and
performance
- Dynamic logical partitioning and
Micro-Partitioning support
- Automated load balancing
- Online addition or removal of processors,
memory, and I/O resources
- Support for dedicated and shared
processor LPAR groups
- Trusted AIX: Multi-level,
compartmentalized security
- Integrated Role Based Access Control
- Encrypting JFS2 file system
- Kernel exploitation of POWER6 Storage
Keys for greater reliability
- Concurrent AIX kernel updates, which can
reduce need for planned outages
- Dynamic tracing with Probevue
- Robust journaled file system and Logical
Volume Manager (LVM) software, including
integrated file system snapshot
- Tools for managing your systems
environment -- System Management Interface Tool
(SMIT) and the IBM Systems Director Console
for AIX
Applications created on previous versions of
AIX V5 should run on AIX V6.1 without
recompilation as long as those programs do
not use nonportable programming techniques.
Additional information on binary
compatibility can be found at:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/compatibility/index.html
Additional Links
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User Group News |
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Significant growth in the Poweraix
Community!
So far in 2007 the community is continuing
to grow at a tremendous rate. Since January
1st the number of registered members has
doubled to over 1800 members, and the number
of user groups has increased 40% totaling 35
user groups from all around the world.
Cheers to the following user groups whose
memberships are growing the fastest:
UG Higlight: NY Metro POWER-AIX/Linux
Users Groups
The NY Metro POWER-AIX/Linux
Users Group lead by Ken Milberg of Future
Tech, had their 3rd meeting, October 25th,
their first one in Manhattan; at IBM - 590
Madison. Speakers included Bharvi Parikh,
System p Specialist for IBM, John Tesch
Ph.D., Certified Consulting IT Specialist for
IBM and Ken Milberg, PMP, Certified Advanced
Technical Expert, System p, for Future Tech.
Bharvi discussed Advanced Power
Virtualization and introduced the new POWER6
architecture and its many enhancements. John
Tesch did a powerful presentation on the new
features of AIX 6.1. Ken's technical
presentation was on IBM's new System p
Application Virtual Environment for x86 Linux
(System p AVE) and he also did a short one on
the overall mission of the poweraix
community. Special guests included Robert
Weiner, Executive Director of Unigroup of NY,
the oldest and most respected Unix users
group in the world, who brought his
membership to the meeting. Isaac Rozenfeld,
leader of OpenSolaris, was also an attendee,
and said a few words to the group. By all
accounts, it was a POWERful evening! Thanks
to their sponsor Future Tech, a Sharp 3D
laptop was raffled off to one of the lucky
attendees! Among other giveaways, were three
types of IBM pens, tea shirts, Unix and Linux
Magazines (Tx to the people at IBM Systems
Magazine) and Linux CDs, as well as plenty of
snacks and beverages. For those that could
not attend, all the presentations have been
uploaded to their user-group home on our
poweraix site. Their next meeting is
tentatively scheduled for late January of
2008. At this time, Ken is trying to organize
a leadership think-tank for the group and
also will be holding a straw poll shortly,
asking members where they would like to hold
the next meeting somewhere in NJ, Long
Island, one of the other 5 boros of NY,
possibly Stamford (CT) or even back to
Manhattan. They don't call it NY Metro for
nothing!
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PowerAIX.org |
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Forums
Register with the Global PowerAIX Community
Forum
This is an opportunity to share your
expertise with members and visitors by
posting or answering questions on the
Community forum. In addition we are looking
for members to help kick off the forum topics
by becoming moderators, if you're interested
please send us an email to info@powerAIX.org
PowerAIX Poll
October 2007 Poll Results
Are you considering a move to the POWER6
architecture in the next 6 months?
Yes 51%
No 49%
Spreading the word!
A number of members asked if they can include
a poweraix.org logo and/or link to the
Community on their email signatures. The
answer is yes! For those members who want to
help promote the Community, we encorage you
to include the following logo and/or tagline
on your email signature:
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Tips and Tricks |
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New IBM Redbooks
IBM has recently published a number of new
Redbooks relating to Power and AIX.
IBM AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide
Introduction to Workload Partition Management
in IBM AIX Version 6.1
IBM System p Live Partition Mobility
Deploying Mission Critical Applications With
Linux on POWER
To see these and other related Redbooks, click
here.
developerWorks space -
Virtualization
Stay current on the latest virtualization topics
for AIX and Linux on Power with the
Virtualization community space, hosted by the
Program Manager for the System p Community
Program.
AIX Collaboration
Center
Introduction to AIX 6.1
workload partitions - podcast
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