IBM AIX Enterprise Edition System Administration Guide

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides AIX® Systems Administrators a broad understanding of the new features and products that make up the AIX Enterprise Edition offering. It will help you design or create a solution to maximize efficiencies and help organizations get the most from their Power Systems™ platform.

AIX Enterprise Edition includes all the features of AIX with additional management software that is designed to complement the features of AIX V6.1. AIX Enterprise Edition is designed to improve the manageability of a virtualized AIX environment. Potential benefits include:
- Improved service availability through access to relevant, real-time information about IT resources
- Enhanced operational efficiency though the visualization of the relationships of IT resources and applications
- Improved operational efficiency by centralizing monitoring and automating the response to service issues
- Better utilization of IT resources through consolidated views of virtualized resource usage
- Improved service availability through Live Application Mobility
- Simplified ordering of AIX and essential service management tools at an attractive price

Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
Chapter 2. Planning and sizing
Chapter 3. Installation and configuration
Chapter 4. Operations

• IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration, SG24-6191-00
• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03
• IBM Certification Study Guide eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L Version 5.3, SG24-7199-00

Publish Date
28 May 2009

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Author(s)

Shane Brandon is a Senior IT Specialist at IBM Australia. He has 11 years of experience in AIX and Power Systems, pSeries, and RS/6000 hardware. He has been with IBM for five years. Shane is a Certified Advanced Technical Expert System p as of 2006 and a Certified Systems Administrator Tivoli Storage Manager V5. His areas of expertise include Operating System provisionng, Network Installation Management (NIM), Security, and PowerHA. He also co-authored Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1, SG24-7656.

• Shane Brandon

Erin Fitzgerald is a Senior System Administrator at IBM United States. She has 14 years of experience in AIX and Linux systems on Power Systems and System x hardware. She has worked at IBM for 13 years. Erin is an AIX Certified Advanced Technical Expert. Her areas of expertise include NIM, Cluster Systems Management (CSM), and security.

• Erin Fitzgerald

SeongLul Son is a Senior IT specialist working at IBM Korea. He has 13 years of experience in the IT industry and is a Certified Advanced Technical Expert for System p. His areas of expertise include networking, Power Systems virtualization, NIM, PowerHA, and General Parallel File System (GPFS). He also co-authored the Deploying Oracle 10g RAC on AIX 5L with GPFS, SG24-7541, AIX 5L Version 5.3 Differences Guide, SG24-7463, and AIX 5L and Windows 2000: Solutions for Interoperability, SG24-6225.

• SeongLul Son

Scott Vetter is a Certified Executive Project Manager at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He has enjoyed 25 years of rich and diverse experience working for IBM in a variety of challenging roles. His latest efforts are directed at providing world-class Power Systems IBM Redbooks publications, white papers, and workshop collateral.

• Scott Vetter

ISBN

0738432903

IBM Form Number
SG24-7738-00

Number of pages
316