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• Managing Storage Subsystems using IBM Systems Director V6.1.2

  IBM Systems Director V6.1.2 aids in the management of various devices such as servers, switches, and storage subsystems. Learn some of the nuances of managing the Storage Subsystem using the IBM Systems Director.

• Resolving problems unmounting partitions

  See how you can simplify the traditional detective work associated with finding processes that prevent you from unmounting devices.

• Migrating IBM Systems Director V5.20 to IBM Systems Director V6.1

  See how how the IBM Systems Director Server V6.1 migration tools make migration quicker and a little easier.

• Learning interprocess communication with the ACE Framework

  There are several problems with using the native Socket API. The Adaptive Communication Environment Framework defines a set of wrappers that address these problems. This article dissects some of the C++-based, object-oriented classes that ACE provides for IPC between the same or different host computers.

• Configuring an AIX client with multiple Kerberos realms

  Discover the configuration details required to set an AIX Kerberos client to interact with multiple realms hosted on Windows Kerberos servers.

• Securing remote AIX V6.1 data at rest using SLES Encrypted File Container

  See how you can secure data at rest exported by AIX and consumed by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server via the NFS protocol using the Encrypted File Container feature provided with SLES.

• Cloud computing with Linux and Apache Hadoop

  Learn how to set up a time/disk-consuming task on the cloud and use Apache Hadoop to build a MapReduce framework to make a Hadoop Cluster.

• Make sudo work harder

  The sudo utility does more than allow users to run commands as a privilege user. Learn to take advantage of sudo's other features.

• IBM and HP virtualization: A comparative study of UNIX virtualization on both platforms

  Learn the fundamental differences between virtualization products on HP and IBM and how they integrate with the hardware platforms in which they run.

• Speaking UNIX: Advanced applications of rsync

  Keeping multiple machines synced can be challenging. Fortunately, a powerful tool is available to make the task easier: rsync.

• Configure single sign-on authentication on AIX

  Learn how to configure an AIX Kerberos client with Microsoft Windows Active Directory server as the KDC, and how to implement the single sign-on authentication mechanism between various AIX Kerberos clients.