Tag Archives: AIX
IBM Power Systems Model and Serial
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
