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+https://www.youtube.com/user/nigelargriffiths
+https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1116387?myns=aix&mynp=OCSWG10&mync=E&cm_sp=aix-_-OCSWG10-_-E
+====== AIX advanced features ======
+{{:aix:aix_functionality.png?850|}}
+====== A Brief History of 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|
+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:
+    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
+-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
+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
+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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