I just had to share this entertaining presentation with everyone.   http://gibsonnet.net/AIX/ibm/Journey_in_VLAN_world.pps   Or the PDF. It's not as interesting or fun, as the animations don't work but you get the idea. I'm sharing the PDF because it appears that you can open this file on Windows fine (in read-only mode) but on a Mac it prompts for a password without an option for opening in read-only. Shame.   https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cgaix/resource/Journey_in_VLAN_world.pdf   It was... [More]

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Using Cluster Aware AIX with AIX 7.1 you can create a cluster of AIX nodes. This interconnected cluster of nodes can immediately provide several capabilities, such as:   ·          Clusterwide event management. ·          Communication and storage events: o    Node UP and node DOWN o    Network adapter UP and DOWN o    Network address change o    Point-of-contact UP and DOWN o    Disk UP and DOWN o    Predefined and user-defined events ·          Clusterwide storage naming service ·          Clusterwide command... [More]

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