Introduction to ibm IBM AIX In 1990 the ibm company introduced first aix o/s on RS6000 platform Later

IBM introduced POWER technology processor Performance Optimized with enhanced RISC Reduced Instruct set computing Power 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1,2,3,4 Used for system admin tasks Filesystem mgt, user and group, LVM, backup and restore, NFS, service mgt. 5,6,7 used for advanced system admin tasks LARP (logical partitioning) DLPAR (Dynamic logical partitioning) HACMP (High availability cluster maltipathing ) P5-550 LAPR Its a one of the virtualization method on aix It is used to run multiple guest o/s on single physical server HACMP It used to provide services to end users continuously with out down time. SUN o/s Sun cluster Veritas cluster server Linux o/s Custer Hp o/s Service guard Aix o/s HACMP Versions ----------Aix 5.3 (current o/s)

Aix 7.1 (latest o/s)

Before 5.0 o/s supports on 32/64 bit system From 5.1 o/s supports only on 64 bit system

Installation of aix ---------------------There are two methods 1) interactive 2) non-interactive Interactive :Its like standalone installation we need to provide each and every option manually Non-interactive Its a remote installation method On IBM we have NIM (network installation manager), which is used to install Multiple systems in the network. Min h/w requirement Before 5.2 versions we need Min 64 MB ram, 5 GB disk From 5.3 versions we need Min 128 MB ram, 5 GB disk Min s/w requirement AIX o/s cds ( 5.3 we have 8 cds ) Types of methods on interactive installation 1) New and completed overwrite o/s installation 2) Preserve installation 3) Migration install New and complete Its used to install new system on the network or local if system already having any data base, it will overwrite everything on that system And creates new o/s Preserve installation Its used to preserver data base on the existing system

While preserving it will overwrite all file system like /,/usr,/opt,/var and paging Accept /home file system. Migration It is used to migrate lower version to newer version While migration, it will updates new features on the existing o/s Ex: Aix 5.2 Aix 5.3

Types of file systems ---------------------------There are 4 type of file systems 1) 2) 3) 4) Journal file system (JFS) Enhanced Journal file system (JFS2) Network file system (NFS) Cdrom file system (cdfs)

Journal file system (JFS) It is a native filesystem of IBM/aix It supports 32/64 bit kernel Enhanced Journal file system (JS2) It is introduced form AIX 5.0 version It supports only 64 bit kennel It used for storing data base (JFS/JFS2) Network file system (NFS) It is introduced in in1983 Which is used to share data base to the network system we can share cdrom files, files, directories and file system Cdrom file system (cdrfs) It is used to access the cdrom content Differences between JFS and JFS2 JFS 1)It supports all versions 2)It supports 32/64 kernel 3)it supports file system compress 4) file system owner ship Sys:sys System -> username System ->user group name 5) Its supports disk quotas JFS2 1) its support from 5.0 version 2)It supports only 64 bit kernel 3) It does not support file system compress 4) file system owner ship root:sys root ->username system -> user group name 5)Its supports disk quotas

LVM (logical volume manager) its is built in s/w on linx,hp and aix It is mainly used for dynamic file system extending and span the data base LVM components 1) Physical storage components a) physical disk (PD) b) physical volume (PV) c) volume group (VG) d) physical partition (PP) 2) Logical storage components a) Logical partition (LP) b) Logical volume (LV)

Physical disk:It is used to store data base on the server Physical disk limitations We cant extend physical disk partition dynamically Data cant be spanned on multiple disks To list all physical disk #lsdev -Cc disk Hdisk0 Hdisk1 1238d093d99 10-10-00-23-1 13093d99 10-10-00-23-1 -C (ODM) -c class (disk/tape/cdrom/scsi/pci) Physical volume (PV) if the PD disk managed by LVM s/w, which is known as PV To list all PV #lspv Hdisk0 Hdisk1 1238d093d99 1238d093d99 rootvg available None available available

How do u configure the Disk? For e.g we have config the hdisk or ethernet card? first u install the disk after that #cfgmgr