IBM Power Systems Sales School:

AIX & Linux

Unit 1 – AIX Overview

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Unit Objectives

After completing this unit you should be able to...

 Provide some historical background about AIX
 Discuss current AIX features and capabilities
 Explain the AIX release strategy
 Describe and position AIX editions

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The UNIX Operating System – History

 Originally developed by AT&T Bell Labs

– Development began in 1969
– Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson were the main developers
– Written originally in assembler, re-written in C in 1973
 The UNIX code was licensed to companies for commercial OS development
– University of California at Berkeley introduced BSD in 1980
– SunOS, HP-UX and Ultrix (Digital Equipment Corp) released in 1982
– IBM released AIX in 1986 (based on AT&T System V and BSD)
– Sun Solaris debuts in 1991
 The Single UNIX Specification (formerly SPEC 1170) emerged in 1994
 The current owner of the UNIX trademark is the Open Group
 SCO currently owns the UNIX System V code originally developed by AT&T

History and timeline: unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html

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AIX Evolution – Over Twenty Years of Innovation

1986-1992 1994-1996 1997-1999 2001-2002 2004-2006 2007-2010 2010+

AIX/6000

AIX AIX AIX AIX 5L AIX 5L AIX 6 AIX 7

V2/V3 V4.1/4.2 V4.3 V5.1/5.2 V5.3 V6.1 V7.1
Establish SMP Higher Flexible Advanced Enterprise Future
in the scalability levels of resource virtualization RAS of UNIX
market scalability management

Open Distributed Network e-Business On Demand New Smarter

Systems Client-Server Centric Computing Business Enterprise Computing
Workstations Computing Data Center

Uni-processor 4/8-way SMP 24-way SMP 32-way SMP 64/256-way SMT 1024-way SMT4

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IBM Power Systems – UNIX® Leadership

UNIX Server Rolling Four Quarter Average Revenue
50% Share
POWER7 49.5%

Active Memory Expansion

45%
POWER6
Live Partition Mobility
40%
POWER5
Micro-Partitioning
POWER6
35%
Active Memory Sharing

30%
POWER4
Dynamic LPARs
25%
POWER6
Shared Processor Pools
20%
HP Sun/Oracle IBM
15%

Source: IDC Server Tracker, 4Q11

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Why AIX is the Premier Unix Platform Today

 Virtualization without limits

 Resiliency without downtime
 Management with automation
 Security with compliance
 Strong, stable, non-disruptive roadmap
 Outstanding performance

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AIX Introduction

 AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is IBM’s version of UNIX

 AIX competition:
– Other proprietary UNIX operating systems, such as:
• Oracle’s Sun Solaris
• Hewlett Packard’s HP-UX
• HP’s Tru64 Unix (from Compaq acquisition)
– Microsoft Windows server operating systems
 AIX is mainly used for enterprise business computing
 The latest version, AIX 7.1, was released in 2010

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AIX Features and Capabilities

 Ships with an integrated Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

 Supports advanced virtualization technologies
– Logical Partitions (LPARS)
– Workload Partitions (WPARS)
 Continuously enhanced to support the latest adapters, such as…
– 10 Gb Ethernet
– 8 Gb Fibre Channel
 Compliant with Unix System V standards
 Provides advanced system security features
 Has advanced diagnostic applications for hardware and software errors

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AIX Features and Capabilities (cont’d)

 Ships with a journaled filesystem – JFS2

– JFS2 allows multi-terabyte files and multi-petabyte filesystems
– The older version JFS is still shipped with AIX
 Integrated security auditing features allow system activity
to be audited at a very granular level
 Provides an integrated accounting system
– Account for system resource usage by users and applications
– Especially useful in chargeback environments
 Has much in common with other proprietary Unix operating systems
 Where proprietary Unix operating systems typically differ:
– Sysadmin tools
– Virtualization technology

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AIX Features and Capabilities (cont’d)

 PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX (formerly HACMP*)

provides high availability clustering
– Enables automated failover and fallback configurations
– Purchased and licensed separate from AIX
 Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC)
is a system monitoring tool
– Enables monitoring of various system resources, such as…
• Disk space
• CPU usage
• Processor status
• Application processes
– Can create automated responses to changing conditions, such as…
• Automatically expand a file system if its usage exceeds 95%
• Automatically email the sysadmin under certain conditions
– A no-charge feature of AIX

* HACMP = High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing

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AIX Features and Capabilities (cont’d)

 AIX includes a system backup utility – mksysb (MaKe SYStem Backup)

– Enables creation of a bootable system backup (a backup of the OS)
– Used to restore a machine (disaster recovery) or install one (cloning a client)
 AIX also includes file backup and restore utilities
– The backup command allows you to backup at a file and/or directory level
– The restore command allows you to restore the files and/or directories archived with the
backup command
 AIX comes with its own software management subsystem for both
LPP format and RPM format software inventories

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AIX – Linux Affinity

 Linux affinity was integrated into the operating system beginning with
AIX version 5.1 (a.k.a. AIX 5L)
 The AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications provides GNU and open source
tools for AIX
– Media comes with AIX
– Contains IBM certified Linux applications compiled to run on Power Systems
– Contents of media are also available for free download from IBM
 The rpm command, which installs Linux software, is included in AIX
 The source code to these applications is also available
 There is a strong affinity between Linux and AIX
for applications

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Background on Linux

 Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system,

but is technically not considered UNIX
 The first Linux kernel was developed by
Linus Torvalds in 1991
 Linux’s origins are found in MINIX (from mini-Unix)
– A Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture
– Released in 1987 for academic use (courses, research)
– Linux began out of Torvald’s frustration with MINIX license terms
 There are hundreds of Linux distributions
– Packaged and optimized for different things
• Fully featured OS for servers, desktops/laptops/netbooks, mobile phones, tablets
• Minimal environments such as embedded systems
– The two distros most used for business computing:
• Novell Suse Linux
• Red Hat Linux

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AIX Version Release History

 1986 – Version 1.0 – 2.0  1999 – Version 4.3.3 for RS/6000 servers
 1989 – Version 1.1 for the PS/2 PC  2001 – Version 5.1 for RS/6000 and Power
servers
 1989 – Version 3.0 for RS/6000 servers
 2002 – Version 5.2 for Power servers
 1992 – Version 3.2 for RS/6000 servers
 2004 – Version 5.3 for Power servers
 1994 – Version 4.0 for RS/6000 servers
 2007 – Version 6.1 for Power servers
 1995 – Version 4.1 for RS/6000 servers
 2010 – Version 7.1 for Power servers
 1996 – Version 4.2 for RS/6000 servers
 1997 – Version 4.3 for RS/6000 servers

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AIX Release Strategy (As shown with AIX 6)

Balancing the client’s need for stability with AIX functional enhancements

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

TL4 - - - - - Service Packs - - - - - - - -
TL5 - - - - - Service Packs - - - - - - - -
TL6 - - - - - Service Packs - - - - - - - -
TL7 - - - - - Service Packs - - - - - - - -
TL8 - - - - - Service Packs - - - - - -

Prior to 2011 Beginning in 2011 (with AIX 6 TL6 and later)

– Two new Technology Levels (TLs) released – One new Technology Level (TL) released
per AIX version per year per AIX version per year
– Five to eight Service Packs per year per TL – About four Service Packs per year per TL
– Up to two years of fix support for each TL – Up to three years of fix support for each TL

ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/support/release_strategy.html

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AIX V5.3 Service Extension

 A world wide service extension offering for AIX V5.3

– Announced in Feb 2012 (announcement letter 612-006)
– Three years of support starting May 2012
• Usage support (for Technology Levels 10, 11 and 12)
• Known defect support (for Technology Levels 10, 11 and 12)
• New defect support (for Technology Level 12)
– First two years will include limited support for new Power Systems hardware
 How this offering differs from prior AIX Release Service Extensions
– World wide offering
– New hardware support for first two years
– Support delivered in service packs (for first two years)
 Requires an active Software Maintenance Agreement

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AIX 5.3 Lifecycle

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
AIX 5.3 Service Extension
AIX 5.3 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
GA TL12 EOM EOS
4/10 4/11 4/12

AIX 5.3 Service Extension Offering

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

 Phone support for usage  Phone support for usage  Phone support for usage
questions and problem questions and problem questions and problem
determination determination determination
 Some new hardware support  Some new hardware support  No new hardware support
 Two planned Service Packs*  Two planned Service Packs*  Interim fixes only

* Entitlement will be required to download Service Extension Service Packs from Fix Central

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AIX Binary Compatibility Guarantee

“We are offering a guarantee1 that

your applications, whether written in-house
or supplied by an application provider,
will run on AIX 7 if they currently run on
AIX 6 or AIX 5L – without recompilations
or modification. Even well-behaved
32-bit applications from AIX V4.1, V4.2,
and V4.3 will run without recompilation.”
Colin Parris
VP and Business Line Executive
IBM Power Systems

ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/compatibility/index.html

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Terms and conditions apply. Customers who wish to participate in the AIX Binary Compatibility Guarantee
must accept the AIX Binary Compatibility Agreement by signing and faxing the Submission Form to IBM.

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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
– Fully binary compatible with AIX 6 and AIX 5
– Binary compatibly for 32-bit programs created on AIX 6, AIX 5 and AIX 4
 64-bit kernel only

*Complete details on AIX binary compatibility can be found at ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/compatibility/index.html

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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
and POWER6 processors
 AIX 7 runs your existing applications
– Binary compatibility guarantee – no need to recompile
– Even supports 32 bit applications created on versions prior to AIX 5L
 Upgrade process
– Prior upgrade tools will support upgrade to AIX 7
– Clients can upgrade directly to AIX 7 from AIX 6 and AIX 5L
– Free upgrade for customers with Software Maintenance Agreements (SWMA)
– Upgrades are no charge within the same AIX edition, for example:
• AIX 5.3 to AIX 7 Standard Edition
• AIX 6 Express Edition to AIX 7 Express Edition
• Etc.

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AIX on Power Systems Delivers End-user Satisfaction

 Data from more than 43,260 IT shops

 Clients on AIX/Power more satisfied

End User Complaints

50

45

40

Monthly Average
35

30

25

20

15

10
AIX Linux Windows

Source: “Does your OS Matter?”

Solitaire Interglobal, November 2011

 Full paper: ibm.com/systems/power/advantages/whypower/osmatter.html

 Exec summary: ibm.com/systems/power/advantages/whypower/osmattersummary.html

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AIX Editions

 AIX Standard Edition

ability
– Suitable for most UNIX workloads Cap
– Vertical scalability to 256 cores (AIX 7)
 AIX Enterprise Edition
– AIX plus enterprise management Enterprise
– Includes AIX Standard Edition; plus Standard
management components from
Systems Director and Tivoli; and the Express Note: AIX V5.3 is only available
in a Standard Edition
Workload Partitions Manager for AIX
 AIX Express Edition
– Lower priced edition targeted at low end servers
(Limited to Power 710, 720, 730 and Pure Flex p260)
– Includes most of the functionality of AIX Standard Edition
 Clients can mix multiple AIX editions in the same server

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AIX Standard Edition

 The edition that most would associate with “AIX”

 Single partition vertical scalability limited only by the
maximum capabilities of the Power Systems platform
– Up to 256 cores
– Up to 1024 threads (SMT4)
 Advanced virtualization, reliability, manageability and security
 Includes Cluster Aware AIX capabilities
 Includes AIX Profile Manager plug-in to IBM Systems Director

Designed to provide the highest level of performance

and reliability of any UNIX operating system

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AIX Enterprise Edition Content

Packaging AIX with advanced enterprise management capabilities

 AIX 7 or AIX 6
 WPAR Manager
 PowerSC Standard Edition
 AIX Dynamic System Optimizer
 SmartCloud Entry for Power
– Systems Director Standard Edition
• IBM System Director
• Active Energy Manager
• Network Control
• Service and Support Manager
– Systems Director Storage Control
– VMControl Enterprise Edition
 IBM Tivoli Monitoring

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AIX Express Edition

An introductory offering for smaller workloads

 Available for AIX 6 and AIX 7 – AIX 5.3 is only available in Standard Edition
 Intended for competitively priced entry systems:
1. Power 710, 720, 730
2. Flex System p260 compute node
 Does not include AIX Profile Manager
 Provides more value to clients looking for a lower price point into the
IBM Power Systems entry hardware portfolio

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AIX 7 Editions Summary

AIX 7 Features Express Standard Enterprise

Limited by 256 cores 256 cores

Vertical Scalability
entry servers1 1024 Threads 1024 Threads
Only with
Cluster Aware AIX  
PowerHA
Management
AIX Profile Manager 2
 
target only
Run AIX 5.3 in a WPAR 3   
Run AIX 5.2 in a WPAR 4   
Full Exploitation of POWER7   
Workload Partitions   
Includes WPAR Manager; Systems

Director and PowerSC Standard Editions
Available on all Power Systems servers  

1
AIX Express scalability is limited by the size of these small tier servers: Power 710, 720, 730 and Flex System p260
2
Requires IBM Systems Director
3
Requires “AIX 5.3 WPAR for AIX 7” product
4
Requires “AIX 5.2 WPAR for AIX 7” product
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POWER7+ Servers: AIX Power Systems Software Tiers

POWER7 Software
Models Tier
780, 795 Large
760, 770 Medium
710/720/730/740/750 Small
Blades / PureFlex nodes Small

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AIX 7 -- The Future of UNIX

 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 makes it easier to manage pools of AIX systems
 Security with compliance – Role-based access control with
domain support improves security for multi-tenant environments
 Workload-optimizing systems – Vertical scalability
for massive workloads with up to 256 cores and1024 threads
in a single AIX partition

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Unit Summary

You should now be able to...

 Provide some historical background about AIX
 Discuss current AIX features and capabilities
 Explain the AIX release strategy
 Describe and position AIX editions

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Notes on Performance Estimates

rPerf for AIX

rPerf (Relative Performance) is an estimate of commercial processing performance relative to other IBM UNIX systems. It is derived from an
IBM analytical model which uses characteristics from IBM internal workloads, TPC and SPEC benchmarks. The rPerf model is not intended
to represent any specific public benchmark results and should not be reasonably used in that way. The model simulates some of the system
operations such as CPU, cache and memory. However, the model does not simulate disk or network I/O operations.
rPerf estimates are calculated based on systems with the latest levels of AIX and other pertinent software at the time of system
announcement. Actual performance will vary based on application and configuration specifics. The IBM eServer pSeries 640 is the baseline
reference system and has a value of 1.0. Although rPerf may be used to approximate relative IBM UNIX commercial processing
performance, actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and
software design and configuration. Note that the rPerf methodology used for the POWER6 systems is identical to that used for the POWER5
systems. Variations in incremental system performance may be observed in commercial workloads due to changes in the underlying system
architecture.
All performance estimates are provided "AS IS" and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or implied by IBM. Buyers should consult
other sources of information, including system benchmarks, and application sizing guides to evaluate the performance of a system they are
considering buying. For additional information about rPerf, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller.
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CPW for IBM i
Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a relative measure of performance of processors running the IBM i operating system.
Performance in customer environments may vary. The value is based on maximum configurations. More performance information is available
in the Performance Capabilities Reference at: www.ibm.com/systems/i/solutions/perfmgmt/resource.html

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Notes on Benchmarks and Values

The IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer
systems. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should
consider conducting application oriented testing. For additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local
IBM office or IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.
IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html .
All performance measurements were made with systems running the AIX operating system unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new
and upgraded systems, AIX Version 4.3, AIX 5 or AIX 6 were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2006 and
SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX and Linux. For new and
upgraded systems, the latest versions of these compilers were used: XL C for AIX v11.1, XL C/C++ for AIX v11.1, XL FORTRAN for AIX v13.1, XL
C/C++ for Linux v11.1, and XL FORTRAN for Linux v13.1.
For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark
vendor.
TPC http://www.tpc.org
SPEC http://www.spec.org
LINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf
PTC Creo (formerly Pro/E) http://www.ptc.com/products/creo/
GPC http://www.spec.org/gwpg/
VolanoMark http://www.volano.com
STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/
SAP http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/index.epx
Oracle Applications http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/index-166919.html
ANSYS FLUENT http://www.ansys.com/Support/Platform+Support/Benchmarks+Overview
TOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/
Ideas International http://www.ideasinternational.com/Free-Advisory/Benchmark-Gateway
Storage Performance Council http://www.storageperformance.org/results

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Notes on HPC Benchmarks and Values

The IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer
systems. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider
conducting application oriented testing. For additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or
IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.
IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html .
All performance measurements were made with systems running AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For
new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of AIX were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The LINPACK, and Technical
Computing benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX and Linux. For new and upgraded
systems, the latest versions of these compilers were used: XL C for AIX V11.1, XL C/C++ for AIX V11.1, XL FORTRAN for AIX V13.1, XL C/C++ for
Linux V11.1, and XL FORTRAN for Linux V13.1. Linpack HPC (Highly Parallel Computing) used the current versions of the IBM Engineering and
Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL). For Power7 systems, IBM Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) for AIX Version 5.1 and IBM
Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) for Linux Version 5.1 were used.
For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.
SPEC http://www.spec.org
LINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf
PTC Creo (formerly Pro/E) http://www.ptc.com/products/creo/
GPC http://www.spec.org/gwpg/
STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/
TOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/
AMBER http://ambermd.org/
GAMESS http://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamess
GAUSSIAN http://www.gaussian.com
ANSYS FLUENT http://www.ansys.com/services/hardware-support-db.htm
ABAQUS http://www.simulia.com/support/v68/v68_performance.php
ECLIPSE http://www.sis.slb.com/content/software/simulation/index.asp?seg=geoquest&
MM5 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/
MSC.NASTRAN http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/prod%5Fsupport/nastran/performance/v04_sngl.cfm
STAR-CD http://www.cd-adapco.com/products/star_cd/performance/406/index.html
NAMD http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd
HMMER http://hmmer.janelia.org/
http://powerdev.osuosl.org/project/hmmerAltivecGen2mod

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