This comes to us from Gareth Coates - my peer in ATS - Thanks, Gareth.
Summary
- AIX5.3 is no longer supported natively on POWER8
- AIX5.3 TL 12 can be supported in a versioned WPAR (vWPAR) on POWER8 based servers
- GA was 14th October 2011 - Generally Available
- EOM is 30th January 2018 - End of Marketing (i.e. you can purchase it)
- EOS is 30th April 2019 - End of Service (extended service may or may not be available)
IBM will no longer provide Installation Media for AIX 5.3, (IBM does not encourage fresh AIX 5.3 installs) so the customer would use a 5.3 mksysb.
The host partition should be running AIX V7.1 latest available TL.
Native AIX 5.3 on POWER details
- GA - 13-Aug-2004
- EOM - 29-Apr-2011
- EOS - 30-Apr-2012
AIX 5.3 Workload Partitions for AIX 7 on POWER7
- GA - 12-Oct-2011
- Briefly: AIX 5.3 Workload Partitions:
- Adds a kernel compatibility layer that allows AIX 5.3 commands and libraries running in the workload partition to function correctly (emulating AIX 5.3 behavior) when run on AIX 7.1
- Enables you to take advantage of the latest IBM Power Systems hardware enhancements sooner by running your legacy applications in a virtualized workload partition environment
- Announced 2011-10-12
- Available 2011-10-14
- Marketing Withdrawn 2018-01-30
- Service Discontinued 2019-04-30
Is POWER8 also supported? Answer: Yes
Hardware requirements:
Software requirements:
- AIX V7.1, or later
- AIX 5.3 with the 5300-12 Technology Level
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