How to automatically resync volume groups on AIX V5.3 - This is useful if there are many VIO clients which have volume groups (including rootvg) mirrored to internal disks on two different VIO Servers. If/when a VIO Server is rebooted, every VIO client will end up with stale physical partitions in such volume groups and the volume groups must be resynced on every VIO client.
How to reserve CPU time for the root userid on AIX V5.3 - This is important if/when many application processes are consuming all available CPU, so that it will still be possible to log in to the server as root and take action quickly. And it is important if/when many application processes are consuming most of the available CPU, so that DLPAR operations will complete promptly.
AIX QuickSheet - most frequently used commands and concepts for basic system administration in a .PDF file to be printed on a single page and tri-folded for storage - downloadable from QuickSheet home page.
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