Intro Ibm server & aix

what I know about the POWER of blue

agenda

Server
OS AIX

history

2 product lines:

- OS/400, later i5/OS, more later IBM i

- AIX (on the same hardware, run Linux as well)

I. 1986-1990 (AS/400 - IBM RT)

II. 1990-1999 (RS/6000)

III. 2000-2004 (eServer pseries)

V. 2008-Now (Power Systems)

- POWER7 microprocessor and AIX 7.1

Server

Firmware
LED screen (System reference codes)
HMC PowerVM

on rack

light path ops panel

770 system board

more: http://tech.hexun.com/2010-03-21/123058900.html

hmc

AIX OS

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive)

SMIT (System Management Interface Tool)
ODM (Object Data Manager)
Storage: Disks, LVM & Filesystems
HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing)

smit

text-mode version of SMIT

                                   System Management

Move cursor to desired item and press Enter.

  Software Installation and Maintenance
  Software License Management
  Devices
  System Storage Management (Physical & Logical Storage)
  Security & Users
  Communications Applications and Services
  Print Spooling
  Problem Determination
  Performance & Resource Scheduling
  System Environments
  Processes & Subsystems
  Applications
  Installation Assistant
  Using SMIT (information only)
            
F1=Help             F2=Refresh          F3=Cancel           F8=Image
F9=Shell            F10=Exit            Enter=Do