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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What is IBM AIX?
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.
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.
- Logical volume manager.
- Stability
- Standard management (has barely changed commands over the years).
- Cannot tell about prices compared to other products.
- You get great discounts if using at IBM for it's customers
- i am not involved in the purchasing.
- HP-UX, Oracle Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
AIX is more stable is more administrative friendly, being the commands do not change every few years like in Solaris.
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
- Large clusters
- Virtualization
- Performance
- With proper capacity planning, a good ROI can be achieved when using large servers partitioned into multiple virtual servers
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
We used both types of servers: IBM AIX and Linux (RHEL). I think IBM AIX has an advantage when using large servers with virtualization.
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
- DLPAR
- LPM
- Patch Management
- Stability
- Optimal performance
- Error fixture with easy commands
I have been using IBM AIX for a longer time. The kind of confidence I have in IBM AIX as well as its support and super features has always given me many reasons to stick with it to run my business.