For years, PowerVM administrators have had to live with a certain inconsistency. Anyone who manages AIX on a daily basis appreciates the convenience of the alt_disk_install / alt_disk_copy mechanism—the ability to update…
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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…