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User Meeting 37th Sept 2020
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Recap
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IBM POWER9 Scale-Out S922 & S924 = new G models
AIX Strength to Strength
Please Run: AIX & VIOS level
AIX in Focus – new videos, 500+ views
nmon monitoringMultiple Oracles
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Saturday 5th September 2020
1 million downloads of nmon & njmon
http://nmon.sourceforge.net/
nmon for Linux Open Source since 2009nmon Analyser on Sourceforge since 2018nmonchart – graphs in a web pagenmon2json
njmon & nimon for AIX & Linuxnmeasurenjmonchart
nweb – 200 lines of C for a Webserver
nmon for AIX became part of AIX in 2008
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Live Partition Mobility Preparation Checklist
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1185.html
Live Partition Mobility Setup Checklist
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1184.html
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Setup Checklist is MUCH longer
Also work checking is running a LPM Validate . . .
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AIX in Focuson YouTube
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YouTube News
In the AIX in Focus series:
Advanced “O” Commands for Performance Tuning
Areas:1. asoo for tuning Active System Optimiser2. ioo for tuning I/O3. nfso for tuning Network File System4. no for Network optimisation5. raso for tuning RAS* features6. schedo for tuning the CPU Scheduler7. vmo for adjusting the Virtual Memory Mgr
* Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
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YouTube News
In the AIX in Focus series:
Advanced “O” Commands for Performance Tuning
Briefly:• A consistent set of commands to
tune all AIX performance options
• Using a common command syntax• Outputting a common format• Using common terms
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In the AIX in Focus series:
Advanced “O” Commands for Performance Tuning
How many tuning options / parameters ?
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In the AIX in Focus series:
Advanced “O” Commands for Performance Tuning
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Advanced “O” Commands for Performance Tuning
Why the gap ?
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YumAIXOpen Source Toolbox
Multi-source mismatched RPM packages are not upgradable or compatible
800+ Single-source RPM packages managed by Yum
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YouTube News
In the AIX in Focus series:
AIX open source Toolbox
Briefly: IBM makes these popular open sourcetool and applications available for AIX users
Benefits:
– Trusted source of the binaries
– One place to look for this type of apps & tools
– Yum for AIX to sort out the pre-reqs
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YouTube News
In the AIX in Focus series:
AIX open source Toolbox
My short cut - https://ibm.biz/AIXtoolbox
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In the AIX in Focus series:
AIX open source Toolbox
Older “mature” AIX with stuck RPM’s?
See AIXpert Blog Article: ibm.biz/AIXpertblog
AIX with Old Open Source RPM Packages Clean-Up then Use Yum
This involves upgrading AIX, erasing all RPM packages, fixing issues & mistakes, then yum bundle, reinstalling yourfavourite RPM, reconfiguring them (if needed)
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YouTube News
In the AIX in Focus series:
AIX open source Toolbox
No Internet access!!
Need to download the AIX Toolbox Repository
Read this articlehttps://developer.ibm.com/technologies/systems/articles/configure-yum-on-aix/
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In the AIX in Focus series:
AIX open source Toolbox
Yum Bundle to install Yum in one step
Download website https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc
Look for yum_bundle_v5.tar- tar and rpm *.rpm
FIRST thing to do is run: yum update
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Questions: How to raise AIX’s profile in 2020?
How to explain all the brilliant features of AIX to newbies?
How to remind the “old guys” who take a lot for granted!
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AIX in Focus
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HW Series
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HW Series
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AIX in Focus
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AIX in Focus
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YouTube News AIX Related
First a tweet
Then a one-pager
Next a RedBook
But now full blown Movie in its own right!
Fast Facts and features on the new Scale-out POWER8Servers – the “G” models
[There is a G in the Machine Type Model – wow!]
Plus what the announcement did not make clear!
https://www.youtube.com/user/nigelargriffiths/videos
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Power Systems Virtual User GroupSessions on
Oracle Best Practices - Aug 20th: Part 1 (CPU & Memory)- Aug 27th: Part 2 (I/O, Networking & Miscellaneous)brought to you by speaker Ralf Schmidt-Dannert & host Joe Armstrong
http://ibm.biz/powersystemsvug
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Support Dates and Versions
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AIX 5.3 no
AIX 6.1 no or moving off soon [performance limited: SMT=4]
AIX 6.1 standard support stopped April 2017at an additional fee Extended Support ends April 2020at an additional fee Extended Support on
POWER7 ends Sept 2020 ( 0 months)POWER7+ ends Dec 2021 (16 months)POWER8 ends April 2022 (20 months)
AIX 7.1 TL5 only - latest is sp6 Extended support costs start next year
AIX 7.2 TL2(until Oct 2020), TL3 or TL4sp5 sp4 sp2
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VIOS 2.2.* = AIX 6 based1 End-of-standard Support ~30th Sept 20202 Extended Support fee from then on (for ~18 months)3 Latest 2.2.6.61
Upgrade to 3.1.<latest>1 Upgrade Best Practice web page2 https://ibm.com/support/pages/upgrading-vios-313 Latest 3.1.1.25
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VIOS 2.2.* = AIX 6 based
4 weeks to upgrade or negotiate Extended support
Letting your VIOS go unsupported - might cost you your job !!!
I am available to AIX User Meeting members= via a Webex or Zoom to discuss your needs
or sanity check your plans- [email protected]
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nmonchartnmon -O for extra SEA statsSEA KB/sSEA Packets/sSEA Physical Network KB/s
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End of Message- Thank you for your time
This was an experiment!- Worth Repeating?
Feedback + ideas welcome:[email protected] or @mr_nmonor LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-griffiths
Volunteer speakers: 5 to 10 minutes!
Next meeting:
5th October 2020
At 4:30 pm BST today
njmon & nmon Meeting
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Interesting information sources
Me
1. My njmon project: http://tinyurl.com/njmon2. Twitter: @mr_nmon
3. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/nigelargriffiths
4. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-griffiths
5. AIXpert Blog: https://ibm.biz/AIXpertBlog
6. Virtual User Groups with monthly sessions:https://ibm.biz/PowerVUG and http://ibm.biz/powersystemsvug
7. Gareth Twitter: @power_gaz8. Gareth LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gareth-coates-3b58a1144
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