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Farewell to AIX 5L
If you're new to AIX, you may not know that AIX 5.3 was officially called AIX 5L. And it's no longer officially supported, unless you have paid for Extended Support or are running versioned WPARs. "5L" didn't refer to a particular version of AIX 5. The "5L" applied to AIX 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3. AIX 5L for Power version 5.0 was first announced back in October 2000. On the technology side: Microsoft Windows 2000 had been released just a few months before Sony's Playstation 2 was released in North America, and Netscape... [More]
Tags: 5.3 aix_5l |
UPDATED: Grow your rootvg on the fly (from 6.1 TL 4)
There are lots of good reasons for having spare disk for rootvg, as I
looked at in the post make
way for rootvg . With virtual disks you can resize your volume group
on the fly: Increase rootvg
dynamically If your rootvg “disk” is actually virtual,
such as a SAN LUN or a logical volume on the VIO server, then it usually
can be expanded on the SAN (or using extendlv on
the VIOS) and then recognised on the AIX LPAR using the -g flag
of the chvg
command : chvg -g
rootvg Note: this is supported for rootvg and... [More]
Tags: disk growth chvg resize aix spare volume_group backend lun 7.1 extendlv 6.1 5.3 rootvg san |
Migration to AIX 6.1 in 25 minutes
Quick migration to AIX 6.1 Yesterday I used the Virtual Media Library to do a migration of an LPAR from AIX 5.3 TL 11 to
AIX 6.1. The migration took under 25 minutes. This included: the migration itself (15 minutes) a reboot, installation of the service pack another reboot. After taking a good backup (not included in the migration time), I did the migration itself by booting off the virtual optical device. This migration took 15 minutes. I then installed the latest service
pack, once again via the VM Library. This took just over 2 minutes.... [More]
Tags: reboot 6.1 5.3 aix 7.1 vmlibrary bootlist migration virtual_media virtual_optical_device |
