If you’ve spent any time managing IBM Power environments, you know the drill: you deploy a new LPAR in an isolated VLAN, and… nothing. The HMC can’t see it. You end up…
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AIX System Dump: Your Server’s “Flight recorder”
Even on the best-maintained LPAR partitions, critical errors (system crashes) can occur that you simply can’t predict. When the system suddenly crashes, you have two options: either you try to read tea…
IBM i (OS/400) The Database Operating System
Today, I wanted to show you one of the most fascinating and surprising operating systems ever created. It’s not another Unix, Linux, or Windows. It is an architecture that went its own…
ACID (SQL) and BASE (NoSQL) in databases
Why, in the cloud era, do we still keep these monolithic IBM Power Machines in our data centers? Isn’t it cheaper to rewrite everything into microservices and scatter it across thousands of…
AIX for Linux Administrators – part1
Introduction I frequently encounter curiosity among Linux administrators regarding what AIX administration looks like and how much it differs from what they already know. Most specialists are aware that Linux is derived…
IBM Acquires Confluent: AI, Streaming, and Data Architecture
The news of IBM acquiring Confluent for $11 billion has caused quite a stir. This isn’t a revolution that changes the laws of physics in IT, but rather a very pragmatic completion…
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX – Operational Basics
IBM PowerHA clusters are used where the high availability of business-critical applications and databases is paramount. Maintaining and configuring these clusters requires specialized knowledge, which is why working with them can be…
Ansible Execution Environments in IBM Power Automation.
Anyone who has tried to maintain a consistent environment for running playbooks, whether on a dedicated Ansible Control Node or any other server, knows how quickly reconciling the requirements of different collections,…
AIX and Memory – How much RAM do I have available?
Introduction Monitoring RAM usage is a key aspect of operating system administration, and the ability to properly interpret the results of system tools seems to be something every systems specialist should possess.…
AIX Toolbox – What is hidden among the RPM packages for AIX?
Most of us working with AIX know the IBM AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software. It’s a repository that gives us access to the open-source world. But have you ever looked closely…