When managing the HMC console, the activity that needs to be done from time to time is to update it. In the life cycle of the console, ifixes and servie packs are…
Author: Adam Waściński
AIX – health check of NVME drives
Since the release of the Power9 servers, the new servers come with NVMe drives. Internal NVMe drives can be used to install VIOS. This raises the question of what condition the NVMe…
Error Analysis in AIX: Interpreting ERRPT Sense Data
In the AIX system, when an error occurs, information about it is logged in the error log. By reviewing the errors that have appeared in the system (errpt), we can read basic…
Memory Optimization on IBM Power Servers
Power servers are multi-processor systems built on the NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) architecture.In this architecture, each processor has a directly attached portion of RAM and can also access the entire server memory…