IBM makes it very easy to get the model number and the serial number of an AIX system or a VIOS on thier Power Series: $ uname -M # model number IBM,NNNN-NNN $ uname -m # serial number HHHHHHHHHHHH You don’t even need to be root to run the commands. More useful AIX commands.
IBM AIX VIOS 2.x VLAN with SEA
Problem How to add another LPAR with a new vlan to an existing SEA. Solution Without downtime: Create one more virtual Ethernet with new vlan, then add this adapter to the current SEA and change the property with chdev command. chdev -dev entX -attr virt_adapters=entY,entZ (where entX is the SEA and entY is the adapter [...]
Migrating a directory to a separate filesystem on AIX
Problem You have a directory that deserves it’s own file system for some reason. This could be because you need to increase throughput, manage backups separately, manage quotas separately or just to have a cleaner data architecture. Solution Create a new filesystem using mkfs Mount the new filesystem temporarily to /mnt Stop all processes that [...]
Installing RHEL from an AIX NIM master
Summary The AIX NIM server allows a very flexible automated installation process to deploy hundreds or AIX nodes as well as LPARs in a matter of hours. It is possible to achieve similar results using the RHEL kickstart system. This article is about a way of automating the RHEL 5 deployment directly from AIX 6.1 [...]