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Systems Director running on a NIM Server & how many CPUs?
Hi, Rob McNelly, the esteemed POWER7 Champion, sent me a really good questions and I thought would make a good blog as I get asked this about once a month. I have cut down the questions a but but it is a two parts: His customer is thinking about putting Systems Director on to their NIM server. Rob remembered me commenting on this but wants the details. They are planning to give it 1 dedicated Power7 core and 12G memory. What do I think about that? Answer 1: 2 years ago this combination (NIM & ISD) was not allowed ( I think it was just not... [More]
Tags: server many cpus? on the & director nim systems running how |
Firefox on AIX to download directly to AIX
I am currently updating my AIX systems and AIX 7 TL2 with its first service pack is now available for download from ESS or IBM Entitlem Software Support to spell it out in full (http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ess) for install media and FixCentral for updates (http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/). While downloading the install media files I noticed there is a new Firefox for AIX available Firefox V3.6.25. This is a jump up from the previous one and I have had (in the past) a few annoying problems with Firefox on AIX Some weird issue... [More]
Tags: source firefox open power7 aix on installp |
Systems Director 6.3 server on AIX, IP address change = Simple
As part of my moving computer room project, I had to change the IP address of my Systems Director server. I recall a long time ago there were issues in this area for (I think) ISD 6.1, so I was not looking forward to this change. Just for a change, I thought I would check the documentation first :-) Once I found the 6.3 part of the documentation there was a whole page on how to do this IP address change. It turns out to be very simple on ISD 6.3. Stop Systems Director with: smstop Change the IP address and DNS server, of course, to match.... [More]
Tags: ip change on director systems aix power7 powervm address 6.3 |
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]
Tags: aix install on systems 6.3 power director power7 |
Java on AIX Tuning Tool for Power & a Whitepaper for Java on Power7
I just noted two great new things to help those running Java on AIX and it seems hard to avoid Java these days! I was just monitoring a customer machine with 1500 WebSphere Application Servers (WAS) each with 100 to 150 threads so roughly 200,000 threads!!! More impressing was that just 20 Power7 physical CPUs was supporting this workload. So here are two things that can help: 1. Java Performance Advisor (JPA) Available for download to anyone on IBM DeveloperWorks website. This is a powerful new tool to help people identify opportunities to... [More]
Tags: whitepaper tuning best tool power6 on power7 practice aix and java |
