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AIX:The Future of UNIX

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As the world gets smarter, infrastructure demands will grow

Smart traffic

systems

Smart water management

Smart energy grids

Smart healthcare

Smart food

systems

Intelligent oil field

technologies

Smart regions

Smart weather

Smart countries

Smart supply chains

Smart cities

Smart retail


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Consolidating with AIX on Power Systems enables clients to…

Server consolidation improves service to clients by delivering flexible performance, dynamic provisioning and enabling clients to avoid disruption

Server consolidation with shared resources enables high system utilization, which lowers the cost of ownership by reducing networking, energy, floor space, and software costs.

REDUCE COST

IMPROVE SERVICE

MANAGE RISK

Server consolidation manages IT risk by improving security, increasing business resiliency and simplifying operations.

AIX, Power™ Systems and PowerVM™ are designed to deliver effective consolidation in the most demanding data

centers


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Winn-DixieStrengthening the infrastructure with an IBM consolidation solution

Business challenge:

Winn-Dixie, a Jacksonville, Florida-based grocery chain based with more than 600 retail locations throughout the southeastern U.S., needed a cost-effective and easily managed solution to replace its aging distributed IT infrastructure and quickly enable disaster recovery.

Solution:

The solution consolidated more than 600 stand-alone servers at individual grocery stores into a centralized data center at Winn Dixie headquarters using IBM AIX® and IBM PowerVM™ virtualization technologies to support 16 stores on a single IBM BladeCenter® JS22 blade server, mirrored to a nearby facility as well as to a remote disaster recovery location.

Benefits:

Redirected $5 million capital cost savings to store remodelling

Improved application performance by 5 to 10 times, enabling better service

Reduced disaster recovery time from days to hours

“We thought the IBM solution gave us the most flexibility not only for now, but going forward. It accommodated our existing application portfolio while providing a very rich upgrade path in our infrastructure.”

– Barry Kirk, director of architecture, Winn-Dixie

Solution components: IBM BladeCenter® JS22

blades in IBM BladeCenter H

IBM PowerVM™

IBM AIX®

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Baylor College of Medicine improves performance and sets the stage for an SAP upgrade with IBM serversBusiness challenge:

When Baylor College of Medicine (Baylor) decided to build a new hospital, it also planned to upgrade its existing data center in order to ease space constraints and replace end-of-life Sun servers. It needed a smooth migration that would provide uninterrupted access to its SAP ERP system and other supporting systems.

Solution:

Baylor engaged IBM Premier Business Partner Mark III and brought in the IBM Migration Factory team to provide the transition of workloads from 32 legacy Sun servers onto three IBM Power™ 570 servers, running the IBM AIX® operating system. IBM Migration Factory performed the server consolidation and migration of Baylor’s software applications from the old Sun hardware platform to the new IBM platform.

Benefits: Achieves a 60 percent reduction in rack space footprint and

better than 40 percent savings in both cooling and power

Improves overall performance by 30 percent

Improves payroll processing time by 213 percent

“Nobody else had as eloquent and simple a design as IBM did. They also offered very cost-effective solutions.”

— Al Reineking, executive director of IT operations

and technical services, Baylor College of Medicine

Solution components: SAP ERP

IBM Migration Factory

IBM Power 570


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The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of EgyptIBM enables growth with powerful, scalable solutions

Business Challenge:

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt’s hardware infrastructure hosted their enterprise resource planning system, Oracle E-Business Suite. As they grew and added modules, server performance failed to meet business needs. They needed to implement a high performance, scalable infrastructure, including a centralized storage system.

Solution:

The company implemented two IBM Power™ 570 servers — one each for the main site and the remote site — both running IBM AIX®. They implemented IBM PowerVM™ Dynamic Logical Partitioning and Micro-Partitioning to minimize server administration and to minimize the number of processors needed. They also implemented IBM System Storage™ DS4800.

Benefits: Improves performance while reducing the number of

processors from 16 to 7 Reduces risk and reduces the number of servers needed

for disaster recovery Increases server utilization by 35 percent and supports 71

percent more users

“Our new IBM infrastructure provides us with improved performance, availability and scalability to manage our growth.”

— The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt

Solution Components: IBM Power 570

IBM AIX

IBM PowerVM Dynamic Logical Partitioning and Micro Partitioning

IBM System Storage DS4800

MUP03005-USEN-00


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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Rewriting the rules on IT investment to facilitate tomorrow’s healthcare innovations Business ChallengeUPMC, Pennsylvania’s largest integrated healthcare delivery network, sought to lower the cost and complexity of IT infrastructure to enable the continued investment in next-generation clinical systems and to lay the foundation for the best possible patient care.

SolutionNow in the middle of a landmark, 8-year strategic partnership with IBM, UPMC is transforming its systems through consolidation, standardization and virtualization. Relying on IBM products and services, the mid-stream effort has already resulted in the reduction of hundreds of servers across the UPMC network and achieved more than a quantum improvement in resource efficiency. It has fundamentally changed the link between processing and resource needs — enabling it to meet an ambitious clinical agenda with a far lower rate of IT investment growth.

Benefits $30 million in capital and operating cost reductions 150 percent increase in processing capacity with no increase

in IT support costs 40 percent reduction in IT infrastructure floor space requirements,

freeing up space for revenue generating services 67 percent reduction in number of physical servers

“ Considering that IBM and UPMC are only midway through this trans-formation project, the results have been impressive. We have already proven that standardization, along with aggressive implementation of virtualization, yields unprecedented productivity and efficiency.”

– Paul Sikora, VP of IT Transformation, UPMC

Solution Components IBM BladeCenter® IBM Component Infrastructure Roadmap IBM Global Technology Services IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences IBM Research IBM STG Services IBM SWG Services IBM System p, System x, System z IBM Tivoli® product suite IBM TotalStorage® Enterprise Storage IBM WebSphere Business Integration IBM WebSphere® Application Server



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IBM Power Systems Success Stories

Power technologies provide real business value

Annual savings of over $500,000 + accelerated new services deployment from 1 month to 2 days

Reduced application downtime + increased flexibility to dynamically scale and

change workload capacity

Fewer processor cores than previous Sun servers reduced software and

management costs + PowerVM simplified the effort to deploy or scale new services

Consolidated and virtualized 76 servers to 6 – reducing complexity and total cost of ownership

of global IT infrastructure

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IBM’S 10-year march to UNIX leadership

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

HP Sun IBM

UNIX Server Rolling Four Quarter Average Revenue Share

POWER4Dynamic LPARs

POWER6Live Partition Mobility

POWER5Micro-Partitioning

POWER7Workload Optimized Leadership

dot.com bubbleburst

global economic recession

…the largest shift of customer spending in UNIX history


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Why AIX is the Premier UNIX® Platform Today

Strong, stable, non-disruptive roadmap

Improved Efficiency through Virtualization

Outstanding Performance

Innovation through integrated Development


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Network CentricComputing

AIX V2 & V3 Establishment in the market:- RISC Support- UNIX credibility- Open Sys.

Stds..- Dynamic Kernel- JFS and LVM- SMIT

AIX V3.2.5Maturity:- Stability- Quality

AIX V4.1/4.2SMP Scalability:- POWERPC spt.- 4-8 way SMP- Kernel Threads- Client/Server

pkg- NFS V3- CDE - UNIX95 branded- NIM- > 2GB

filesystems- HACMP

Clustering- POSIX 1003.1,

1003.2, XPG4- Runtime Linking - Java 1.1.2

AIX V4.3 Higher levels of

scalability:- 24-way SMP- 64-bit HW

support- 96 GB memory- UNIX98 branded- TCP/IP V6- IPsec- Web Sys. Mgr.- LDAP Dir.

Server. - Workload Mgr- Java JDT/JIT- Direct I/O- Alt. Disk Install- Exp/Bonus CDs

Distributed Client-Server

1986-1992 1994-1996 1997-1999

Flexible Resource Management:

- POWER4+ spt.- Dynamic LPAR- Dynamic CUoD- New 64bit kernel- 512GB mem- JFS2 - 16 TB

filesystems- UNIX03 branded- Concurrent I/O- MultiPath I/O- Flex LDAP

Client- XSSO PAM spt

e-Business Computing

Open Systems Workstations

AIX Evolution – Over Twenty years of Progress

AIX/6000

Uni-processor 4-8 way SMP 24-way SMP 32-way SMP

AIX 7Future of UNIX:- 256 core/1024

tread scalability- POWER7

Exploitation- Domain based

RBAC- AIX Profile

Manager- WPAR

enhancements- AIX 5.2 in a

WPAR- PowerVM

virtualized storage

- LVM SSD support

- Terabyte segment

2010

On DemandBusiness

2001-2002

64/256-way SMT

AIX 5L V5.3 Advanced Virtualization:- POWER5 support- 64-way SMP- SMT-

MicroPartitions™- Virt I/O Server- Partition Load

Mgr- NFS Version 4- Adv. Accounting- Scaleable VG- JFS2 Shrink- SUMA - SW RAS features- POSIX Realtime

2004-2005

AIX 5L V5.1/5.2

SmarterPlanet

2007

AIX 6 Enterprise RAS:- POWER6

support- Workload

Partitions- Application

Mobility- Continuous Avail.- Storage Keys - Dynamic tracing- Software FFDC- Recovery Rtns- Concurrent MX- Trusted AIX- RBAC- Encrypting JFS2- AIX Security

Expert- Director ConsoleNew Enterprise

Data Center 1024-way SMT4


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PowerVM Virtualization Architecture

Networks and network storage

On demandresources

Power Hypervisor

Serviceprocessor

Processors

Memory

Linuxpartitions

Virtual Network

AIXDedicatedpartitions

Expansion slots

Virtual processors Virtual adapters

Local devices & storage

Workload management and provisioning

WPAR

WPAR

WPAR

VirtualI/O

serverVirtual

network&

storageSLICLinux

kernels

AIX Shared partitions

AIXkernels

VirtualI/O

serverVirtual

network&

storage

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What is new for August 2010

AIX 7– The Future of UNIX

AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7– A new way to consolidate older workloads on POWER7


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Workload-Optimizing Systems– Vertical scalability for massive workloads with up to 256 cores/1024 threads

in a single AIX partition

Virtualization without limits – Run AIX 5.2 in a WPAR to simplify consolidation of legacy environments on POWER7

Resiliency without downtime– Built in clustering to simplify configuration and management of scale-out

workloads and high availability solutions

Management with Automation– Profile based configuration management eases the management

of pools of AIX systems

AIX 7 -- The Future of UNIX

*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.

Some features require the purchase of additional software components.


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AIX Binary Compatibility Guarantee


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Moving up to AIX 7

AIX 7 runs on your existing hardware– Fully exploits POWER7 processor-based systems– Also exploits systems based on POWER4™, POWER5™, POWER6 processors

AIX 7 runs your existing applications– Current applications will continue to run – no need to recompile applications *– Even supports 32 bit applications created on AIX versions prior to AIX V5– Binary compatibility guarantee

Upgrade process– Prior upgrade tools will support upgrade to AIX 7– Clients can upgrade directly to AIX 7 from AIX 6 and AIX V5– Free upgrade for customers with Software Maintenance Agreements (SWMA)

–Upgrades are no charge within the same edition: AIX 5.3 to AIX 7 Standard edition

AIX 6 Express Edition to AIX 7 Express Edition, etc,

*See general conditions at ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/compatibility


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AIX Scalability Evolution

AIX/6000

Uniprocessor

24Threads

4-8 Threads

256Threads

32-128 Threads

1024Threads


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AIX 7* Hardware Enablement and Support

Terabyte Segment support– Designed to improve performance for workloads that use large amounts of memory

AIX kernel memory pinning – AIX 7 memory pinned by default to enhance performance

Hardware acceleration for Encrypting Filesystems, IPSec and Trusted Execution

– Reduce processor workload for encryption

LVM Solid State Disk Support– SSD only Volume Groups, enhancements to filemon to identify SSD candiates

Shared Memory interface to Barrier Synchronous Register– Reduce need for kernel extensions for BSR access

* These features are also available in AIX 6 Technology Level 6


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AIX Workload Partitions (WPAR)

WPARs are designed to save administrator work by reducing the number of AIX instances to patch

WPARs have much lower memory resource requirements: 68 MB vs 1GB for an LPAR

WPAR takes seconds to create and LPARs minutes

Application mobility much simpler to organize than LPM

Lots of WPARs on one AIX is simpler to monitor and control than monitoring across many LPARs.

Rapid cloning is easy and lets you use "disposable images" - simple to create, experiment and throw away

Virtualized AIX operating system environments within a single AIX image

Each WPAR shares the single AIX operating system

AIX 7 added the capability to run AIX 5.2 in a WPAR*

Applications and users inside a WPAR cannot affect resources outside the WPAR*

Each WPAR can have a regulated share of processor, memory and other resources

Two types of WPAR- System WPARs have separate

security and appear like a completely separate OS

- Application WPARs are manageability wrappers around a single application

Top reasons to use WPARsWhat is it?

* Requires purchase of the AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7 product

NetworksDisk or NFS storage NetworksDisk or NFS storage


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AIX Workload Partitions can be used in LPARs

LPARAsia

LPAR LPAREMEA

LPARAmericas

VIOServer

Dedicated Processor

LPARFinance

Dedicated Processor

LPARPlanning

WPAR #1Business

Intelligence

WPAR #1MFG

WPAR #2Planning

WPAR #1eMail

WPAR #3Billing

WPAR #2Test

Micro-partition Processor Pool

POWER Hypervisor™POWER Hypervisor™


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WPAR Shared Applications Enables Administrative Efficiency

WorkloadPartition

App Server#1

WorkloadPartition

Billing

WorkloadPartition

BI

Global filesystems

/

/etc

/usr application code

/opt application code (or here)

/var

/tmp

/appserver application code (or here)

System WPAR filesystems

/ r/w - unique per WPAR

/etc r/w - unique per WPAR

/usr r/o from global (typically)

/opt r/o from global (typically)

/var r/w - unique per WPAR

/tmp r/w - unique per WPAR

/appserver r/o from global

/config r/w uniq per WPAR (example)

Global FS

//etc/usr/opt/var/tmp/appsvr

WPAR FSApp Server 1

WorkloadPartition

App Server #2 Workload

PartitionWeb

Server

Application installed in Global instance and used by multiple WPARs

WPAR FSApp Server 1

//etc/var/tmp/config

//etc/var/tmp/config

NFS

AIX global Instance


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AIX 7 WPAR Enhancements

Export of Fibre channel adapters to WPARs – NPIV-like, but can work on any Fibre Channel adapter– Adds support for Fibre Channel tape

Kernel Extensions for WPARs– Trusted kernel extensions may be loaded by the WPAR administrator– Extensions can be only for one WPAR or for entire system

Support for VIOS disks in WPARs – VSCSI disks can be exported to a WPAR – This feature also available in AIX 6 Technology Level 6

Run AIX 5.2 inside of a Workload Partition– Consolidate older environments on POWER7 processor-based systems– Requires AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7 – available separately from AIX 7


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Introducing: AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7 A new licensed program product offering that allows customers to simplify

migrating their old, AIX 5.2 workloads to POWER7– Runs on top of AIX 7 and POWER7 processor-based server

Customer value– Simplify consolidation of old workloads on new hardware– Reclaim floor space and eliminate hardware support for obsolete servers– Protects customer investment in application stacks– Offering includes phone and fix support for AIX 5.2– Enables advanced capabilities such as SMT4, Live Application Mobility and Live

Partition Mobility– Provides a way for AIX 5.2 clients to move up to POWER7


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AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7

Client simply backs up existing legacy AIX 5.2 environment and restores into an AIX 7 WPAR

Client applications continue to run in AIX 5.2 environment with AIX 5.2 libraries

The SWMA for this offering will also provide how-to and limited defect support for the AIX 5.2 operating system

POWER7 exploitation: SMT4, VIOS, MicroPartitioning and Mobility

Managed via IBM Systems Director Workload Partitions Manager or command line

AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7 will be a separately charged product built on AIX 7

*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.

Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

POWER7

AIX 5.2 VersionedEnvironment

5.2 syscall compatibility layer

AIX 7 Native Environment

AIX 7 native syscalls

WPARA

/ /var/tmp /home

WPARB

/ /var/tmp /home

WPARD

/ /var/tmp /home

WPARC

/ /var/tmp /home

AIX 7 Kernel

/usr/opt

/usr/opt /usr

/opt

mksysbbackupfrom

AIX 5.2legacysystem


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When to use Workload Partitions

Requirement MicroPartitions Workload Partitions

Hardware enforced Isolation

Minimal number of AIX images

Server Consolidation

Greatest Flexibility

Cross system workload management

Move workload between systems

Most efficient use of hardware resources

Run AIX V5.2 on POWER7


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AIX Live Application Mobility

Can make it easier to consolidate workloads from underutilized servers

Can provide increased flexibility to manage workloads by easily moving the workload to another system

Facilitates increased reliability by allowing workloads to be moved away during planned outages

Automated, policy based relocation can reduce administrative workload

Provides a way to manage availability and workload of your IT infrastructure without significantly impacting end users

The capability to relocate a running Workload Partition from one system to another without restarting the application

The application running inside the WPAR resumes running after the relocation is complete

Works with systems based on POWER7, POWER6, POWER5 and POWER4 processors

Requires the IBM PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager for AIX product, a Systems Director advanced manager

Manual or automatic, policy based relocation

How it can help?What is it?

WorkloadPartition

QA

AIX # 2

WorkloadPartition

Data Mining

WorkloadPartition

App Server

WorkloadPartition

Web

AIX # 1

WorkloadPartition

Dev

Workload Partitione-mail

PowerVM™WorkloadPartitionsManagerfor AIX

Policy

WorkloadPartitionBilling

Shared Storage (SAN or NFS)


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PowerVM Live Partition Mobility

Can make it easier to consolidate workloads from underutilized servers by facilitating the transfer of workloads with almost no end user impact

Can provide increased flexibility to manage workloads by easily moving the workload to another system

Facilitates increased reliability by allowing workloads to be moved away during planned outages

PowerVM Live Partition Mobility can provide for a much more flexible and responsive IT infrastructure by reducing the cost and risk of rebalancing workloads

A PowerVM Enterprise Edition feature that allows an entire Logical Partition (LPAR) to be relocated from one system to another with almost no impact to the end user

The end user effect is a single delay of two seconds when the relocation is completed

Supported by AIX 7, AIX 6, AIX V5.3 and Linux®

PowerVM Live Partition Mobility requires that all I/O be virtualized through the Virtual I/O server at the time of the relocation


Movement to adifferent server with no loss of

service

Virtualized SAN and Network InfrastructureVirtualized SAN and Network Infrastructure

Live Partition Mobility requires the purchase of the optional PowerVM Enterprise Edition.


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Live Application Mobility

Live Mobility on Power Systems

Movement of the OS and applications to a different server with no loss of

service

Virtualized SAN and Network InfrastructureVirtualized SAN and Network Infrastructure

PowerVM Live Partition Mobility• Move an entire Logical Partition from one system to another

while it is running with almost no impact to end users• Moves the entire LPAR including the operating system • Requires systems based on the POWER6 or POWER7

processors, PowerVM Enterprise Edition, and all I/O must be through the Virtual I/O Server

• Works with partitions running AIX 7, AIX 6, AIX V5.3 and Linux

Live Partition Mobility

AIX Live Application Mobility• Move a Workload Partition from one AIX system to another

AIX system while running with almost no impact to end users• Moves only the WPAR, the AIX operating system is not

moved• Requires the PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager, and all

WPAR filesystems must be on shared storage• Works on systems based on POWER4 processors and later

Potential BenefitsImproved application availability

Energy savingBetter workload management

WorkloadPartition

QA

AIX # 2

WorkloadPartition

Data Mining

WorkloadPartition

App Server

WorkloadPartition

Web

AIX # 1

WorkloadPartition

Dev

Workload Partitione-mail

PowerVM™WorkloadPartitionsManagerfor AIX

Policy

WorkloadPartitionBilling

Shared Storage (SAN or NFS)


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AIX Role Based Access Control (RBAC) with Domains

Can reduce the cost and complexity of security administration by allowing secure delegation of administrative tasks to non-privileged users

Enables a more secure IT infrastructure by reducing the need for so many privileged administrators

Assigning roles to programs can reduce the need for security exposures such as the use of setuid for programs

Allows for new ways to delegate administration duties between system administrators and non-administrative users

A capability of AIX that allows privileged administration tasks to be delegated to non-privileged users

Access to system resources are associated with roles that are assigned to non-privileged users

Many roles are predefined which can reduce the effort of implementing RBAC

Roles can also be associated with programs

Domain access can further limit administrators to only work with resources for a particular organization (AIX 7/AIX 6 TL6)


UsersUsers Roles

PRINT

AIX Resources

AIX Resources

BACKUPCompany A

DBACompany A

BACKUPCompany Z

Company ZData

DBACompany Z

Company AData

Domain support Provides more granularityfor multi-tenant IT shops


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AIX Encrypting Filesystem

Enables improved security by reducing unauthorized access to data, even by privileged users

Secure backups reduces the exposure of data compromised when backup media is taken outside of secure facilities

Automatic management of protection keys can reduce the administrative effort of using encrypted data

Provides the capability for additional security for applications that may have security design exposures

Automatically encrypt data in a JFS2 filesystem

Data can be protected from access by privileged users

Backup in encrypted or clear formats

Automated key management - integrated into AIX security authentication

Each file encrypted with a unique key

Hardware offload to Cryptographic adapter

No keys stored in clear in kernel memory

A variety of AES, and RSA cryptography keys supported


Always encrypted on disk

Data in clear in memory.

VMM

J2

Filesystem

CLiC

Crypto Lib

User and Group Key Stores

Crypto Kernext

Kernel ucred open key store

Login Authentication Module

Key Store

Mgt Cmds

BOS Cmds

Backup/Restore

Cp, mv, crfs, etc


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AIX Security Expert

Can reduce the cost and complexity of security administration by allowing federated management of security profiles across multiple servers

Enables a more secure IT infrastructure by reducing the effort of maintaining system security

“Check” functionality can provide additional security by validating that the security profile for each system matches the actual security settings

Allows for new ways to efficiently manage security across multiple AIX systems

A centralized security management tool that can control over 300 security settings from a single console

Administrators can start from a “Low”, “Medium”, “High” or “Sarbanes-Oxley” security template and customize settings to met business requirements

Security settings can be exported and imported as a security profile to multiple systems

Security profiles can be stored in an LDAP directory for ease of distribution

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AIX & Power Systems Security Certifications

AIX 5200-06 CAPP/EAL4+Application: 01/11/05Final report: 10/26/05Certificate: 12/14/05

AIX 5L 5200-05 andPitbull LSPP/EAL4+

Application :01/11/05Certificate issued: 05/16/06

AIX 5300-05 LSPP/EAL4+

Pitbull product Supports P5, P4Certificate issued: 12/19/06

Pitbull MLS Ported to AIX 5300-03

Pitbull product available to customers Dec 31, 05

AIX 5300-04 CAPP/EAL4+Supports P5, P4Certificate issued: 12/19/06

AIX 7100-00) CAPP/RBACPP/LSPP/EAL4+

Supports P7, P6, P5, P4

Legend

AIX V5.2AIX V5.3 AIX 6AIX 7 (Planned) VIOSPOWER6

Certification HistoryAIX 4.2 C2: Apr 24, 1997AIX 4.3 C2: May 6, 19987AIX 5.2 CAPP/EAL4+ : Nov 4, 2002POWER4 HW CAPP/EAL4+ : Apr 2003AIX 5.2 ML1 CAPP/EAL4+ : Sept 8, 2003AIX 5.2 ML6 CAPP/EAL4+ : Dec 14, 2005AIX 5.2 ML5 and Pitbull LSPP: May 16, 2006AIX 5.3 TL5 and Pitbull LSPP: May 16, 2006AIX 5.2 TL4 & VIOS CAPP/EAL4+: Dec 16, 2006POWER6: Dec, 2007AIX 6: May 26, 2008AIX 7: Planned 2010 *All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject

to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only

VIOS EAL4+Included with AIX 53.00-04 CAPP/EAL4+

POWER6 Hardware EAL4+

Dynamic LPAR with MicroPartitioning

AIX 6100-00) CAPP/RBACPP/LSPP/EAL4+

MLS capabilities integrated into standard AIX product

One certification for 3 Protection Profiles

Supports P6, P5, P4

2006 2007 20102005


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Cluster Aware AIX

Easily create clusters of AIX instances for scale-out computing or high

availability

Designed to:

– Significantly simplify cluster configuration, construction, and maintenance

– Designed to improve availability by reducing the time to discover failures

– Capabilities such as common device naming help simplify administration

– Built in event management and monitoring

A foundation for future AIX capabilities and the next generation of PowerHA

SystemMirror and PowerVM

Designed to simplify construction and management of clusters of AIX systems for scale-out computing and high availability


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Cluster Aware AIX Exploiters

Legacy AIX

PowerHASystem Mirror

TSA HMCIBM

StorageHPC

DB2IBM

Director

Monitoring API

ClusterMonitoring

Group Services

Cluster Admin UI

Cluster CFGRepository

Resource Mgr Services

Bundled Resource Managers

ClusterMessaging

Messaging API

Legacy RSCT

RSCT Consumers

VIOS

Monitoring API

ClusterMonitoring

Group Services

Cluster Admin UI

Cluster CFGRepository

Resource Mgr Services

Bundled Resource Managers

ClusterMessaging

Messaging API

RSCT With Cluster Aware AIX

Cluster Aware AIX

ClusterRepository

ClusterMessaging

ClusterMonitoring

ClusterEvents

CAA APIs and UIs

Redesigned Layers Integrated to CAA Capabilities

RSCT and Cluster Aware AIX together provide the foundation of strategic Power Systems SW

RSCT-CAA integration enables compatibility with a diverse set of dependent IBM products

RSCT integration with CAA extends simplified cluster management along with optimized and robust cluster monitoring, failure detection, and recovery to RSCT exploiters on Power / AIX


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AIX Non-intrusive Reliability Features

Designed to increase availability by reducing problem determination time and effort

Can reduce the impact of problems by minimizing the intrusiveness of problem determination compared to traditional methods

These new service features provide an infrastructure that can fundamentally change the OS problem determination process for the better

A number of new reliability, availability and serviceability features that are designed to improve system and application reliability

New features include: Live Dump Firmware Assisted Dump Enhanced First Failure

Data Capture (FFDC) for AIX

Enhanced features: Lightweight malloc debug Lightweight memory trace Consistency checkers Component trace



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AIX Storage Keys

Can provide for higher AIX availability by reducing the number of unplanned outages due to intermittent memory overlay

Enables complex applications that use large amounts of memory to protect core functions from memory overlay

This new capability can reduce the likelihood of an entire class of intermittent application and AIX problems

Exploitation of a POWER7 and POWER6 processors hardware feature to provide additional isolation of kernel and application data

Storage keys can prevent invalid changes to memory cause by programming errors

Application use of storage keys is enabled in AIX V5.3

AIX Kernel exploitation of POWER6 storage keys is included in AIX 7 and AIX 6


UserCode

UserData

Files

WS DB2

KernelCode

KernelData

JFS2 LVM VMM . . . SCSI ENT FC

ApplicationAddress Space

AIX DriversAIX Kernel

UNIX Kernel Address Space

UserCode

UserData

Files

WS DB2

KernelCode

KernelData




UNIX Kernel Address Space

UserCode

UserData

Files

WS DB2

KernelCode

KernelData




AIX Kernel Address Space

UserCode

UserData

Files

WS DB2

KernelCode

KernelData




AIX Kernel Address Space

After POWER6 Storage Keys

Before POWER6 Storage Keys


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AIX probevue Dynamic Tracing

Enables the possibility to dramatically reduce the amount of time and effort to debug and tune applications

Can reduce the performance impact to the system compared to using traditional tracing methods

Dynamic tracing offers an entirely different way for developers and system administrators to troubleshoot application problems

The capability to dynamically extract information about a program as it is running

Trace points can be added or removed dynamically without recompiling or restarting the application

Includes a new language, vue, to define the desired action when a probe point is reached

Support for C, C++, FORTRAN and Java language programs


Formatted I/O

User Kernel

Probe Location

User Process CodeSome thread

hits probe point (1)

Branches to probe code (2)

Probe code

(3)Returns to probe point

(4)

Thread continues

execution(5)

Trace Consumer

Trace Fileor

Trace Output

Trace Buffers

E-code


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PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager for AIX

Can make it easier to consolidate workloads from underutilized servers by providing a single point of management for all WPARs and enablement for Live Application Mobility

Can reduce cost and complexity through centralized management of WPARs

Enables increased flexibility by allowing administrators to quickly create, clone or delete Workload Partitions from one system to another

Supports systems based on POWER4 or later processors

Policy based relocation and federated management of WPARs provides new ways to manage your IT infrastructure

A product that federates management of WPARs across multiple systems

WPARs can be created, cloned, stopped, started and monitored from a single location

Includes enablement for Live Application Mobility

The WPAR Manager is a advanced manager “plug-in” to the IBM Systems Director

The WPAR Manager is available as a component in the AIX Enterprise Edition or as a separate product


WPAR AgentAIX

System/Application WPARs

WPAR AgentAIX


WPAR AgentAIX


WPAR AgentAIX


WPAR AgentAIX


WPAR AgentAIX


IBMWorkloadPartitionsManagerfor AIX

Browser


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AIX Systems Director Console for AIX (pConsole)

Can reduce the amount of effort and cost associated with managing the AIX OS

Web access to administrative tasks can simplify systems management

Consistent user interface with IBM Systems Director and the WPAR Manager can reduce retraining and other administrative costs

The combination of Web access to administration tools and the ability to execute administrative tasks on multiple systems can change the way you manage the AIX OS

A Web based management tool that provides easy access to common system administration tasks

Administrators can access Systems Management Interface Tool (SMIT) menus from a browser

Graphical user interface is fast and fully integrated with IBM Systems Director

All necessary components for the Console are included in AIX

The Distributed Command Execution Manager (DCEM) feature of the Console allows an administrative task to run on multiple systems at once



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AIX Automatic Variable Page Size

Can improve overall system performance which could improve the amount of work done per Watt of energy

Automated page size tuning can reduce the amount of effort and cost associated with managing a key aspect of performance tuning

Since this feature is turned “on” by default, it improves your ability to get the most out of your systems based on POWER6 processors

This “self tuning” aspect of AIX can improve performance while reducing administrative workload

AIX exploitation of POWER6 or later hardware that supports variable page size

AIX will automatically select optimal page size to provide better performance

Kernel will choose between 4K and 64K pages, including a mix within a memory region

Supports process data, heap, stack, shared memory, anonymous mmap() memory

Enabled by default with administrative controls to turn off or change aggressiveness to “upsize”

Required AIX 7 or AIX 6 and POWER6 or later processor based systems



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System N

AIX 7 Profile Manager (Formerly AIX Runtime Expert)

System A System N System C

SetExtract Compare

Simplified configuration using the AIX Profile Manager

Systems Director plug-in that is designed to simplify consistent AIX configuration across multiple systems

Traditional server configuration

OS Configuration and Tuning

Environment Variables

Configuration Files

Boot LV Settings

CLI Utilities

Apply and maintain approachesScripts, ftp, rsh, ssh, documentation,3rd party tools, mksysb, etc.

System A System NSystem BSystem A System NSystem B

XML Profiles

Env var XYZ=“Yes”AIX security profile .tuneable N

Env var XYZ=“Yes”AIX security profile tuneable N



System Administrator

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Configuration Elements managed by AIX Profile Manager

acctctl

alog

authzcfg

authent

chcons

Chdev.sys0

chlicense

chservices

chsys

class

dumpctrl

errdaemon

ewlm

ffdc

filter

ioo

krecovery

lvmo

nfso

mktcpip

nis

probevue

tcp_nw

udp_nw

ip_nw

arp_nw

stream

raso

role

ruser

namerslv

nfs

shconf

schedo

privcmd

privdev

privfile

smtctl

syscorepath

sysdumpdev

traces

tsd

trustchk

vmo

aix.secexpert

mkuser.defuser

chuser

login

chsubserver

gen.param

etc.env

misc.other

probeview

restrictedtrcctlfile.data


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AIX is available in three different editions:– AIX Standard Edition

• Suitable for most UNIX workloads• Vertical scalability up to 256 cores (AIX 7)

64 cores (AIX 6)

– AIX Enterprise Edition• AIX plus enterprise management • Includes AIX Standard Edition plus

Systems Director Enterprise Edition and the Workload Partitions Manager for AIX

• Vertical scalability up to 256 cores (AIX 7) 64 cores (AIX 6)

– AIX Express Edition• Lower priced edition targeted a low end servers and

consolidation of smaller workloads on larger servers • Includes most of the functionality of AIX Standard Edition• Vertical scalability is limited to 4 cores and 8GB of memory per core in a single

partition• Clients can use multiple AIX Express Edition partitions in a single larger server

Clients can mix multiple AIX editions in the same server

AIX Editions

Capab

ility

AIX StandardEdition

AIX EnterpriseEdition

AIX ExpressEdition

Note: AIX V5.3 is only available in a Standard Edition


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AIX Enterprise Edition

AIX Enterprise Edition includes:– AIX 7 or AIX 6 Standard Edition plus – WPAR Manager – Systems Director Enterprise Edition

• IBM System Director • Active Energy Manager • VMControl (including Image Management & System Pools)• Network Control • Transition Manager for HP® SIM• Service and Support Manager• IBM Tivoli Monitoring • Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

AIX Enterprise Edition is a single offering that brings together AIX with key service management capabilities that are designed to: Improve availability through access to relevant real-time information and predictive

monitoring to avoid future problems Enhance operational efficiency through visualization of resources and centralized

deployment and management of virtualized AIX environments Provide accurate assessment of system resource usage


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AIX Enterprise Edition Key Features Live Application Mobility

– Relocate Workload Partitions between systems with almost no client impact

Energy Management– Collecting and report current and historical usage, and controlling energy usage

Virtual Server Management– Create and manage virtual machines, manage virtual machine relocation, and managing virtual

workloads in system pools

Manage WPARs across multiple systems– Centralize the creation, replication, and starting of WPARs across multiple systems

Automatically discover IT components and their relationships– Ideal for managing dynamic virtualized environments

Monitor virtualized resources– Efficient management begins with comprehensive performance information

Predictive monitoring and capacity management– Leverage real time monitoring in data warehouse to provide advanced analytics for capacity planning and

proactive monitoring

Provides a visual representation of the components– Assists understanding of complex application dependencies

Network Management– Discover, monitor, and manage multi-vendor network devices and automate network management tasks

Monitor utilization and configuration changes– Useful for problem determination and failure analysis


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Simplified WPAR Management



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Clients get business-level views and management of service availability

Consolidated monitoring of physical and virtual resources

IBM Tivoli Monitoring

– Designed to improve mean-time-to-

recovery by relating virtual to physical

resources

– Data warehouse provides Side-by-side real-

time and historical data to assist problem

determination and planning

– Out-of-the-box reporting allows

clients to quickly provide executive

level reports and identify resource

bottlenecks



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Power Systems Monitoring - VIOS View

Shows how network interfaces are mapped to LPARS

Network and Disk Mapping and Utilization Information



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Overall Frame Utilization



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WPAR Workspace

NOTE: Right button click on Link icon to access menu of supplemental WPAR WSs



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Use existing ITM agents and data that are stored in the Tivoli Data Warehouse

Create new metrics based on combining existing date Predictive trending and forecast reports Pre-configured reports Extensible

Scenarios“What will my resources look like

tomorrow, next week and next month?”“What IT resources should I worry

about?”“Will I have enough capacity to get me

through Monday?”

What It Does• Provide capacity monitoring through the data collected by Tivoli Monitoring• Automates Performance analysis and reporting • Enables prediction of application bottlenecks and creation of alerts for potential service threats.

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Predictive Trending Predictive trending on key performance

indicators– Linear trending model– Configurable– Simple, open and predictable

New Tivoli Monitoring attributes for use in charts and situations

– Trend strength, trend direction– Time to threshold, value in 7 days, 30 days and

90 days Use trend information in situations

– “I predict I have 2 weeks before I hit 95% Disk Utilization and I am 70% confident and its getting worse”

Leverages Tivoli Enterprise Portal – Overlays to represent Trends– Icons in Tables

Time

CP

U

Predicted trend

Threshold Predicted CPU Violation

Actual Monitor Data



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Application discovery complements platform component asset data

Better management through better information

– Discovers the system and application data

center resources

– Discovers the relationships and

dependencies between the system and

application resources

– Visually depict the dependencies between

Data Center between the application and

system resources

– Discovers and tracks changes to data

center resources

IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)



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Reduce the time to deploy workloads using virtual images

Discover and manage heterogeneous AIX image repositoriesImport, capture and catalog virtual images from existing systemsDynamically provision virtual server, storage and network resources

DeployVirtual

Machines

Open Virtualization Format (OVF)CaptureVirtual

Machines

I mage Repository

SoftwareSoftwareapplicationapplicationSoftwareSoftware

applicationapplication

Operating Operating SystemSystem


MetadataMetadataMetadataMetadata

SoftwareSoftwareapplicationapplicationSoftwareSoftware

applicationapplication



MetadataMetadataMetadataMetadata

Virtual image



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Balance resources with Live Partition Mobility

Dynamically adjust virtual machines resource allocations.- Allowing unallocated resources to be used by a virtual machine.- Allowing resource allocation adjustments to be made between virtual machine.

Virtual server mobility between host systems.- Allocate resources on the target host.- Move the virtual machine in-memory state to target host.- De-allocating resources on the source host.

Virtualization

Compute Memory

Virtual MachineVirtual MachineVirtual Machine

Virtualization

Compute MemoryIO / Network

Virtual Machine Virtual MachineVirtual Machine

IO / Network

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OSSW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS

SW

OS



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Dynamic virtual server placement of workloadsAutomates virtual image mobility for optimal utilization and resilienceOptimizes virtual assets for performance, availability and energy useIntegrates server, storage and network virtualization

System pools enable automated mobility for higher workload availability

Compute Network StorageMemoryCompute Network StorageMemoryCompute Network StorageMemory

Virtualization

Compute Network StorageMemory

Virtualization

Compute Network StorageMemoryCompute Network StorageMemory

IT Resources Virtual Images System Pools

Mobility

Optimized for Availability Performance Energy



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Electrical energy and thermal trendingReport electrical power at the rack and server level

Manage thermal energy at the rack and server level

Analyze trends in energy usePerformance per watt displayCalculate energy costs for targeted resources

Trend electrical power use over time

Trend temperature over time

Note: Energy monitoring and control capabilities vary by system.

Energy cost calculator



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Platform Management

Integrated network management and monitoring

StorageServerNetwork

Service Management Unified view of servers, storage,

and network devices

Basic lifecycle management of network switches

Network device topology collection and visualization

Integrated single sign on launch of vendor - based device management tools

Converged Ethernet network device support (FCoCEE) via native support and vendor tools

IT environment



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Provides the foundation for Enterprise Service Management in an easy to order solution at an attractive price

Designed to improve operational efficiency of managing a PowerVM™ virtualized environment

Includes IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition for comprehensive platform and service management


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AIX StandardEdition

AIX StandardEdition



AIX Express Edition

AIX Express Edition

Capability

AIX Express Edition

AN edition of AIX priced for smaller workloads– AIX 6 and 7 feature Express Edition– AIX 5.3 is only available in a Standard Edition

Intended for two deployment situations1. Entry price on entry servers and blades2. Consolidation of smaller workloads on enterprise servers

AIX Express Edition terms are designed for small workloads– Vertical scalability limited to 4 core maximum partition size– 8 GB memory per core maximum

Flexibility to optimize for multiple workloads– Run any combination

of AIX Editions on a server

AIX Express Edition


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AIX Express Edition can improve the economics of consolidation

Example: Consolidate eight 4-way POWER6 520s into a 24 way POWER7 770

Old price with AIXStandard Edition

AIX License + SWMA

List price 24 cores x $1,950Total (list) $46,800

(U.S. prices shown)

With AIX Express

AIX License + SWMA

List price 24 cores x $1,000Total (list) $24,000

Savings of $22,800(U.S. prices shown)

AIX Express Edition


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IBM License Metric Tool

Common IBM monitoring tool for SWG, Power Systems & Systems Director software products

Provides a data center view of IBM software licenses

Simplifies customer license tracking, compliance & audit reporting

ILMT does NOT report back to IBM

Tool Provides*:– Software inventory– Web-based administration– Standard & custom license reports – Audit reports

Required for clients using AIX Express Edition on Medium and Large servers

*Implementation of some features will be staged over time

AIX Express Edition


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AIX 7 Hardware Support

Systems based on POWER4, PowerPC® 970, POWER5, POWER6 and POWER7 processors are supported

32 and 64-bit applications will continue to run unchanged on AIX 7

64-bit kernel only

*Complete details on AIX binary compatibility can be found at http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/os/compatibility/


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AIX support for POWER7

AIX supports Power 750, 770, and 780 with POWER7 processors offering more performance, energy efficiency and scalability

Initial AIX Levels supported – AIX 6 Technology Level 4 SP2 (POWER 750/755) (GA 2/12) – AIX 6 Technology Level 4 SP3 (POWER 770/780) (GA 3/5)– AIX 5.3 Technology Level 11 SP3 (GA 3/5)

April AIX Technology Levels – AIX 6 Technology Level 5 (PS700, PS701, PS702) – AIX 5.3 Technology Level 12 (PS700, PS701, PS702)

Prior Technology levels – AIX 6 Technology Levels 2 and 3 – AIX 5.3 Technology Levels 9 and 10

Plans subject to change without notice


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POWER7 Platform SupportMove up to POWER7 on your current AIX Technology Level!

POWER7 based Systems provide two modes for each LPAR– POWER7 mode

• Fully exploit unique POWER7 capabilities• AIX 6.1 TL4 SP2 (Power 750/755), SP3 (Power 770/780) and later• AIX 7

– POWER6 & POWER6+ modes• Allows Live Partition Mobility to POWER6 systems• AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 TL2 & TL3

POWER7 Features exploited by AIX- Energy Management (available in all modes)

– Per-Partition energy management- POWER7 Mode

– 4 thread Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT)– 1024 Threads / 256 cores partition size (AIX 7 only)– Double precision Vector Scalar Extension (VSX) – 32 Storage Protection Keys (8 for applications)

Core

L3

MC0 MC1PowerBus

GX

EI3 (Elastic Interface) I/O

EI3 (Elastic Interface) I/O

Mem

ory

I/O

Mem

ory

I/O

Mem

ory

I/O

Mem

ory

I/O GX

L2

Cores: 8 L2: On Chip L3: On Chip Technology: 45nm Transistors: >1B Size: 567 mm2


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AIX support for POWER7 Processor Modes

POWER6 & POWER6+ MODE POWER7 MODE POWER7 Client Value

AIX 5.3 AIX 7 & AIX 62-Thread SMT 4-Thread SMT Throughput performance,

processor core utilization.

Affinity OFF by Default 3-tier Memory, MicroPartition Affinity

Improved system performance for system images spanning sockets and nodes.

32-core/64-thread Scaling64-core/128-thread Scaling

32-core / 128-thread Scaling64-core / 256-thread Scaling 256-core / 1024-thread Scaling (with AIX 7)

Performance and Scalability for Large Scale-Up Single System Image Workloads (e.g. OLTP, ERP scale-up, WPAR consolidation).

EnergyScale CPU Idle EnergyScale CPU Idle and Folding with NAP and SLEEP

Improved Energy Efficiency

Active Memory Expansion Additional memory for applications

You need more than AIX 5.3 to get the most out of POWER7!


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Why should you move up to AIX 7 or AIX 6? More performance on POWER7

– AIX 7 and AIX 6 can provide substantially more performance on POWER7 than AIX V5.3– AIX 7 supports massive workloads with up to 256 cores / 1024 threads

Access to new features– Capabilities like WPARs, Role Based Access Control, AIX Profile Manager are designed to

improve security and administrative efficiency

AIX V5.3 is nearing End of Life– End of Marketing announced effective April 2011

AIX 7 will support running AIX 5.2 in a WPAR– Excellent way to consolidate old workloads running on less efficient hardware

It’s FREE!– Customers with software maintenance agreements (SWMA) can upgrade for no additional charge

within an Edition: • AIX 5.3 to AIX 7 Standard edition • AIX 6 Express Edition to AIX 7 Express Edition, etc,

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