For some, what I’m about to describe might seem obvious. However, in my experience, many people still don’t fully understand how different technologies interact with each other and what their specific applications…
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Using Ansible for HMC Update
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…
IBM Power Ansible in Practice: Adding a VLAN to SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter)
Here’s a practical approach to managing network configuration on IBM Power servers using Ansible and the ibm.power_hmc collection. Using a playbook as an example, I’ll show how to add a new VLAN…
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…
IBM Creates Great Technologies, But What Happened to Them?
Today, I found out that IBM engineers created and contributed to adding support for LXC containers to the Linux kernel – a technology that became the foundation of modern containerization. Sounds impressive,…
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…
Intruduction to AIX
In the world of technology, Unix systems are often perceived as complex, intended exclusively for a narrow group of specialists with advanced knowledge. IBM AIX, one of the most mature and stable…
Linux on Power and Simultaneous Multi-Threading
Do you know what thread settings can be configured on a system running on an IBM Power10 server? Check it out in the following article:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linux-power-smt-close-encounters-third-thread-michal-wiktorek-er85f
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…
IBM Power11 and Power12 rumors
In the world of technology, where rumors can often outpace the facts, everyone is already speculating about IBM Power12, even though Power11 has yet to be released. The reason is simple: Power11…