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AIX Install Media Downloads Now Available
No more ordering CDROMs or DVDs for AIX installation media and waiting days - Note: this also works for IBM i. Now you download the AIX install .iso image over the web and install from
there: Use the virtual DVD drive on your VIOS 2.1 and install directly
into a LPAR Mount the image & read the contents into your NIM Server If you are a Luddite then burn a DVD and put it in the Power machine Mounting a .iso image on AIX is still hard work On recent AIX 6 systems
use the loopmount command. On older AIX versions use this
method from... [More]
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Systems Director 6.2 is Saving Me Time on AIX/POWER - check out how!
OK, this is "blowing my own trumpet" a little but I just finished a 12 minute movie on the best bits of Systems Director. Best in the sense that they "save me a lot of time" and you might like to take a look to see if they can help you too. As I run lots of POWER based machines and lots of copies of AIX, this is why it is very relevant to this AIXpert Blog. The 8 areas are: One Hour Install, Update Manager - HMC, Firmware & AIX in four mouse clicks, Whole
Machine Performance View, LPAR direct to HMC, Active Energy... [More]
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Systems Director 6.3 install on AIX in about 2 hours
So a long download of about 7 hours for the 1.9 GB but a reasonably quick install. Fresh AIX 6.1 TL6 and service pack 6 installed. See my Update below for a problem with this AIX level. Prepared a /database filesystem for the DB2 database. The Pre-Install Utility told me to fix some file system sizes, more paging space and ulimit - good stuff. The Installer worked fine. The CIM Server install seems to take for ages at the start! It then refreshes the Common Agent, installed the default "managed" DB2 database invisibly behind the... [More]
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