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AIX Release and Service Strategy changes for February 2011
IBM is enhancing the AIX release and service strategy
effective February 15, 2011.
The key changes are: Three years of new fix support for
each AIX Technology Level update (starting with AIX TL 6) One Technology Level update per AIX
version per year (planned for the second half of the year) Service Packs for Technology
Levels will be released about four times per year These changes reflect client requests for IBM to provide new
fix support for individual Technology Level updates for a longer period. The
intent is to reduce the... [More]
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Which AIX Release, Technology Levels and Service Packs to use for the POWER7 machines?
I am getting this question quite a lot and the answer is it depends on the model and when it was made available.
These are the minimums but higher service packs are recommended .
POWER7 Systems
Power 750, 755 (Jan)
Power 770,780 (March)
Blade 700, 701,702 (June)
Power 710, 720, 730, 740, 795 (Sept)
AIX 5.3 TL9
SP7 SP7 - -
AIX 5.3 TL10
SP4 SP4 SP5 SP5
AIX 5.3 TL11
SP2 SP2 SP5 SP5
AIX 5.3 TL12
* * * SP1
POWER7 Systems
Power 750, 755 (Jan)
Power 770,780 (March)
Blade 700,... [More]
Tags:  6.1 710 750 pack technology 770 730 power7 795 level service 740 780 aix 5.2 720 |