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 +https://​www.youtube.com/​user/​nigelargriffiths
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 +https://​www.ibm.com/​support/​pages/​node/​1116387?​myns=aix&​mynp=OCSWG10&​mync=E&​cm_sp=aix-_-OCSWG10-_-E
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 +====== AIX advanced features ======
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 +{{:​aix:​aix_functionality.png?​850|}}
 +====== A Brief History of AIX ======
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 https://​robmcnelly.com/​10-things-to-love-about-aix/​ https://​robmcnelly.com/​10-things-to-love-about-aix/​
  
 +Key Release Dates and End of Support
 +^Release Number ^ Release Date ^Regular Support Ended^
 +|AIX 4.1 - 4.3 |12 Aug 1994 |31 Dec 2003|
 +|AIX 5.1 -5.3 |24 Oct 2001 |30 April 2012|
 +|AIX 6.1 |9 Nov 2007 |30 April 2017|
 +|AIX 7.1 |10 Sep 2010 |30 April 2023|
 +|AIX 7.2 |1 Dec 2015 |Supported|
 +|AIX 7.3 |10 Dec 2021 |Supported|
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 +Ignoring AIX release 1 and AIX release 2, which were for early UNIX hardware from IBM called IBM RT and IBM PS/2.
 +
 +==== AIX 3.1-2 Starter pack ==== 
 +
 +AIX 3 (1990) for Power based processor computers (initially RS/6000) based on UNIX AT&T System V.2 and V.3 with some added BSD 4.2 features plus IBM unique features in simplifying systems management:
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 +    Systems Management menu interface: smit & smitty
 +    Network Installation Management (NIM)
 +    Journaling File System (JFS)
 +    Logical Volume Management (LVM)
 +    Make a bootable system backup (mksysb)
 +    High Availability Clusters (HACMP) - later called PowerHA
 +    Real-time computing infrastructure
 +
 +
 +==== AIX 4.1-3 What is New ? ==== 
 +
 +    AIX binary compatibility with AIX 3
 +    Symmetrical Multi-Processor (SMP) - A VERY BIG KERNEL CHANGE
 +    SMP hardware J30/R40 with 6 or 8 CPUs
 +    NIM Enhancements
 +    JFS greater than 2 GB 
 +    NFS v3
 +    32-bit/​64-bit applications at the same time
 +    Add 16 GB total memory support
 +    Alternate disk installation AIX upgrade
 +    Last release 4.3.3
 +
 +
 +==== AIX 5.1-3 What is New ? ==== 
 +
 +    AIX binary compatibility with AIX 4
 +    HMC and Hypervisor
 +    Virtualization of CPU & RAM
 +    Virtual disks + network = VIOS 
 +    Live Partition Mobility (evaluation)
 +    Dynamic LPAR: CPU + memory
 +    Symmetric multithreading SMT
 +    AIX MPIO 
 +    Concurrent I/O for RDBMS
 +    NPIV SAN virtualization
 +    Workload Manager (process groups)
 +    JFS2 – extent-based space allocation
 +    First Failure Data Capture (FFDC)
 +    PowerSC
 +    NFS version 4
 +    Last release 5.3
 +     
 +
 +==== AIX 6.1 What is New ? ==== 
 +
 +    AIX binary compatibility with AIX 5
 +    Live Partition Mobility (LPM) for production
 +    Workload Partition & Live Application Mobility (LAM)
 +    Versioned WPAR for AIX 5.2 & 5.3
 +    Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
 +    Encrypted JFS
 +    Trusted AIX
 +    AIXpert - system hardening by rules
 +    Kernel - Storage Keys for RAS
 +    Dynamic process tracing: ProbeVue
 +    Firmware assisted dump
 +    AES encryption for NFS v3 and v4
 +    Nigel’s performance monitor: nmon 
 +    Last Release 6.1 TL9
 +     
 +
 +==== AIX 7.1 What is New ? ==== 
 +
 +    AIX binary compatibility with AIX 6
 +    JFS2 Integrated Snapshots
 +    WPAR storage devices
 +    Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
 +    Encrypting JFS file system
 +    Trusted AIX and Trusted Execution
 +    Cluster Aware AIX (CAA)
 +    Snapshot of a JFS2 file system
 +    topas Multi-server
 +    JFS to JFS2
 +    Secure Shell (SSH) in base AIX
 +    Active Memory Expansion
 +    Transactional Memory
 +    Shared Storage Pool support
 +    PowerVC Support
 +    Last release 7.1 TL5 - functionally stabilized since AIX 7.2 arrived. Mostly bug and security fixes ever since.
 +     
 +
 +==== AIX 7.2 What is New ? ==== 
 +
 +    AIX binary compatibility with AIX 7.1
 +    Live (Kernel) Update capability for Technology Levels, Service Packs, and Fixes.
 +    Active Memory Expansion 64k page
 +    LVM thin storage block reclamation
 +    AIX Open Source Toolbox Enhancements
 +    SMB 2.1 client and SMB 3.0.2 client
 +    Migration to Cloud ready - create_ova
 +    Flash Cache For Fibre Channel disks
 +    Includes Dynamic System Optimizer (DSO)
 +    External Interrupt Virtualization Engine (XIVE)
 +    Live Kernel Update LKU Enhancements (2015)
 +    POWER9 HW NX GZIP engine
 +    Ansible "​Paybooks"​ released for AIX
 +    Scaling enhancements – larger LPARs
 +    Simplified Remote Restart Supported
 +    Application address space randomization
 +    LVM passive mirror enhancements for concurrent I/O applications
 +    NIM HTTP support for updates
 +    Shared memory communications over RDMA (SMCR)
 +    AIX installation from USB flash drive (also added to AIX 7.1 TL5)
 +    Enhanced multi-queue NPIV performance
 +    Fibre Channel: Congestion Notification,​ 32 Gb support, and NVMe over Fibre Channel
 +    14 million open files per SRAD
 +    NVMe drive space reclaim
 +    GLVM HW assisted compression
 +    OpenSSH with Power HW GZIP compression
 +
 +
 +==== AIX 7.3 What is New ? ==== 
 +
 +    AIX binary compatibility with AIX 7.2
 +    Power10 server support:
 +        Power10 support 240 cores & 1920 hardware threads per LPAR
 +        Matrix Maths Accelerator (MMA)
 +        OpenBLAS with MMA support, available from the AIX Toolbox ​
 +        Optimized memcpy instructions
 +        For new generation IBM OpenXL compilers ​
 +    Stronger default password rules and new default password algorithm (SSHA-256)
 +    telnet & ftp not in default installation (due to security risks)
 +    ”Out of the box” ready for POWER or Power10 hardware NX GZIP with "​pigz"​ and create_ova supported
 +    New JFS2 file systems default to inline log
 +    Added Open Source bash 5.1 and Python 3.9
 +    AIX Open Source Toolbox that uses “dnf” & toolbox updated plus many extra packages
 +    Fast Dynamic LPAR resize CPU and memory
 +    Reduced LPAR boot times with large memory
 +    LVM Encryption for rootvg ​
 +    128 TB JFS2 file system and file size
 +    Oracle 19c support
 +    Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMem) can be configured as a hdisk
 +    Live update of AIX kernel tunables (no, vmo)
 +    New IPsec features (NAT-T, IKE fragmentation)
 +    Stronger default security for AIX trace channel 0
 +    Sendmail support for SASL authentication
 +    TCP Cubic support
 +    Increased fork and exec scaling
 +    Enhanced Async IO IOPs scaling
  
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