IBM AIX at it's best
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IBM AIX (for Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a Unix operating system, developed, offered and supported by IBM.
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August 17, 2022
IBM AIX at it's best
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We do use the IBM AIX Operating system to divide the memory and CPU between various jobs and provide support to the customers. This powerful UNIX OS continues to provide game-changing features such as AIX Live Update, which allows you to apply new IBM AIX OS levels without a system restart and will have more efficient performance to the customers.
- The newer version of IBM AIX allows to apply new patches without system restart
- IBM AIX was the first operating system to have a journaling file system and have enhanced software features.
- IBM AIX will have good vendor support 24/7 and will ensure reliability to the customers and more performance when compared to it peers.
- IBM AIX will not support in cloud environment, it should start with support of cloud.
- The cost is expensive when compared to it peers.
- IBM AIX has preferred licenses
- IBM AIX doesn't have GUI feature enabled by default.
June 08, 2022
Using AIX for decades.
We use AIX as the preferred UNIX solution for our database servers, backup servers, and application servers.
- Logical volume manager.
- Stability
- Linux compatibility.
- Easier VIO management.
- Better integration with rpm/yum/dnf.
- Ability to change a filesystem to INLINE log.
April 11, 2022
Strong, reliable, multi-purpose, great performance
We've been using IBM AIX servers running Oracle databases. These include small to very large databases running business-critical systems.
- Reliable servers
- Excellent performance
- Fully supported for all versions of Oracle
- Proprietary IBM AIX multi-threaded architecture makes it difficult to estimate required CPU power for new systems
- Would help if AIX shell command set would be 100% compatible with Linux
- Some of the performance metrics seem proprietary to AIX, and it would be good if this was more standard and closer to Linux
March 17, 2022
IBM AIX Review
In my organization, most of the databases and critical applications are running on IBM AIX due to numerous reasons like error handling. One of its most important features helps a lot with downtime, as well as the quick allocation of necessary resources and deallocation in case of release.
- Centralized management
- Easy to patch with an alternative disk
- Easy to analyze errors
- An opensource file set customization should be made
- Yum creation should allow for checking updates on a regular basis
- Snapshot options to add by default for the profile itself
March 11, 2021
AIX Review
We use AIX to run our mission critical apps.
- AIX is very stable, We have had systems running for years without rebooting
- AIX is secure
- AIX is easy to manage
- There is no real GUI interface which some people could see as a drawback
- AIX can be expensive
September 24, 2019
IBM AIX review
IBM AIX is used by the entire organization. We run propriety processing apps in production, mostly legacy software.
- It is extremely reliable
- Feature rich, fully fledged *IX system
- Delivers good performance on IBM POWER
- Management of the virtualization, especially using IVM can be clunky
September 12, 2019
Stable platform but limited new features
We currently use IBM AIX as the compute power behind our main legacy ERP system, D3. AIX provides a very stable platform for D3 and allows hundreds of internal customers to connect to our centralized software without batting an eye.
- IBM AIX is a very stable server product, and I can't recall a time when the server has crashed due to a hardware fault.
- If you have legacy software that can't run on the new-fangled Linux flavors, AIX might be the way to go.
- AIX has a host of built-in management tools that makes system configuration easy for a novice.
- A lot of the built-in commands have not been updated in years. If you're used to some fancy CLI options in Linux, you may be out of luck with AIX.
- Out of the box, you cannot run open-source Linux utilities on AIX. There is a toolbox you can install, however, it's not the same versions as you would get in different Linux flavors.
- Tab completion for files and Up arrow to re-run previous commands don't work out of the box without running a Korn shell. A small annoyance, but one that catches me every time!
July 07, 2019
IBM AIX in a healthcare enterprise
IBM AIX has been used to support the core, enterprise systems here at Tucson Medical Center for more than 14 years. AIX runs our mission-critical applications such as Epic Electronic medical record, Sunquest Lab, Oracle databases, Intersystems Cache Databases, and PeopleSoft. These systems support the enterprise at both the departmental and enterprise levels.
- Stability. In the 14 years that I have used the product, I cannot think of a single time that we had an OS level failure. It is rock solid. We have had systems that have been booted and run for literally years without interruption.
- Virtualization. We run IBM AIX as LPARS on Power infrastructure. All of our AIX infrastructure is virtualized making it easy to scale as needed.
- Their logical volume manager makes the task of managing storage very simple. It is feature complete and they have mitigated much of the complexity that usually is inherent in LVM implementations.
- I have a love/hate relationship with Smit. It is their administrative interface. It is very powerful and very complete which is why I marked it as a pro. It is also a bit clunky and somewhat arcane in its interface but still usable.
- Staying current with open source software such as MySQL, Apache, Python, Perl, PHP, etc. These packages are usually only available from third parties and are often very out dated and difficult to implement.
- Software maintenance is cryptic, difficult to manage, and fragmented. There are Service packs, Technical Levels, APARS, RPM updates, CPAN updates, and each has its own way of being managed and applied.
- IBM AIX could be more security conscious. By default, insecure protocols such as Telnet and FTP are enabled and are the expected interface.
June 21, 2019
AIX performance vs commodity operating systems
Aix is utilized across the organization for workloads that require exceptional stability and performance.
- Aix has exceptional security, if you configure it properly to best security practices.
- Using the new Power9 platform we are able to have great price to performance ratios on our workloads.
- Aix is now available in a cloud option so we are looking at extending our hybrid configurations.
- While there are options to install some standard Linux tools like Bash, they are not always easy to procure
- Allowing easier flexibility in how some tools and CLI options work would make it easier for admins to float between operating systems.
AIX currently runs critical ERP systems across the organization. The stability, ease of use and robustness of the platform allows us to focus on the applications and worry less about the implementation and uptime concerns.
- Performance Management
- Volume and Filesystem management
- Ease of Use
- Backup and Recovery
- Bringing new features online
- Configuration Management
- Difference enough from Linux to create concerns
January 17, 2019
AIX decline in usage
IBM AIX is used on hardware supporting both database and middleware and applications. It is used across the enterprise, supporting applications generally provided by IBM such as Websphere. Used by all business segments, its usage has decreased over the years as we drive to use more open source options. It is very powerful but quite expensive.
- Very high performance; handles load very well
- Very stable, not a lot of OS issues with this system
- Solid vendor support
- Very Expensive
- Doesn't always handle non-IBM offerings very well
- Seems to be shrinking, as we find it difficult to find AIX resources