IBM AIX at it's best
We do use the IBM AIX Operating system to divide the memory and CPU between various jobs and provide support to the customers. This …
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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.
- Live update feature with the newer version of IBM AIX
- IBM AIX operating system is reliable and more efficient.
- It's well suited for critical environments as it's more secure.
- IBM AIX is more expensive but its worth to have it for the features its embedded with
- It's not suited for small customers because of the hardware cost as the ROI will be less for smaller customers.
- IBM AIX is well suited for companies who has more customers so that ROI doesn't impact.
IBM AIX operating system is advanced with most features and also it's more reliable unlike Redhat Linux, Sun solaris, HP-UX and also we will have well support from the vendor if we run into any issues. IBM AIX is more user-friendly when compared to linux and easy to use so i would prefer the customers to have their operating system as IBM AIX for companies who has more customers.
March 11, 2021
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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
- The overall availability of the applications is a positive
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server
AIX is more security and stable. You rarely need to take down the system or apps.
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.
- IBM AIX on Power hardware has been the backbone of our most critical applications.
- The versatility of IBM AIX virtualization has been extremely useful, scalable, and provided configuration with redundant dual VIO servers.
- IBM AIX is not Linux so special skill sets are needed to actually manage the systems. Finding qualified engineers can often be a challenge
- Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Oracle Linux
The only real comparable competitors to IBM AIX come from the Linux world. Linux is beginning to approach the reliability and stability of IBM AIX and is often a better choice. Linux also has a shorter update cycle with more significant leaps in functionality and feature sets. Linux also integrates much more tightly with open sourced programs by making them easily installed, maintained and updated through simple command line tools such as apt and yum.
While IBM AIX has a great deal in its favor, given a choice between Linux and IBM AIX I would choose Linux for all but the most critical applications, and even then I would probably still choose Linux.