Formed in January 1986, the operating system AIX - is the implementation of the UNIX operating system to IBM. It fully supports the 32 - and 64-bit applications. In addition to supporting standard UNIX, AIX includes the commands and application programming interfaces that simplify porting applications from Linux to AIX 5L.

Currently, the AIX operating system is a standard operating system for computers with POWER and PowerPC families of IBM RS/6000 (1990-2000), as well as IBM pSeries (since 2000).

AIX 7.1 - the latest generation of proven, scalable UNIX operating systems at IBM, based on open standards. Virtualization, security, availability, and manageability make AIX 6 even more flexible, safe and affordable system compared to previous versions of the system is based on IBM POWER technology and virtualization allows you to achieve exceptional performance, increase system utilization and ffektivnost, for ease administration and reduce overall cost.

AIX 7.1. known as «AIX 7", is compatible with earlier versions of AIX (including AIX 5L and even earlier) at the level of binary code. This means that applications that ran on earlier versions of the OS will be guaranteed to work in AIX 6.1 AIX 6 - is based on open standards operating system is UNIX, Compliant with specifications Open Group Single UNIX Specification Version 4.

AIX 7 runs on systems based on POWER4, PPC970, POWER5, POWER6 and the latest generation of POWER processor, POWER7. Most of the new features of AIX 7 are available on the earlier POWER processor-based platforms, but the most capability is delivered on systems built with the POWER6 and POWER7 processors. The AIX OS is designed for the IBM Power, System p, System i, System p5, System i5, eServer p5, eServer pSeries and eServer i5 server product lines, as well as IBM BladeCenter blades based on Power Architecture technology.

AIX 7 extends the capabilities of the AIX OS to expand the vertical scalability of AIX to partitions with 256 processor cores and 1024 threads to handle the largest workloads. To support higher performance for large workloads, AIX 7 will also includes new Terabyte segment support which leverages memory management capabilities of POWER7 processors designed to improve memory performance. This Terabyte segment capability is also included in AIX 6 at Technology Level 6 but is not automatically enabled on AIX 6.

AIX 7 also includes new virtualization capabilities designed to simplify the consolidation of older, AIX V5.2 environments. This new capability, which requires the purchase of the "AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7" product, is designed to allow administrators to simply back up an existing LPAR running AIX 5.2 and restore it into an AIX 7 Workload Partition.

AIX 7 also includes a new built-in clustering capability called Cluster Aware AIX. This new technology builds clustering technologies in the AIX base operating system. This built-in clustering support provides commands and programming APIs to create a cluster from a group of AIX instances and provides kernel-based heartbeat, monitoring and event infrastructure. This new infrastructure supports common device naming for storage devices across the cluster. While this new Cluster Aware AIX functionality is primarily intended to provide a reliable, scalable clustering infrastructure for products such as PowerHA ™ SystemMirror and PowerVM ™, clients can directly use the Cluster Aware AIX functionality facilitate management of scale-out computing environments.

AIX 7 also includes new security features to improve and simplify security administration. For example, the new Domain Support in Role-Based Access Control is an enhancement to Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) that allows a security policy to restrict administrative access to a specific set of similar resources, such as a subset of the available network adapters. This allows IT organizations that host services for multiple tenants to restrict administrator access to only the resources associated with a particular tenant. Domains can be used to control access to Volume Groups, Filesytems, files, and devices.

Finally, AIX 7 includes new manageability enhancements such as the AIX Profile Manager. The AIX Profile Manager can manage the configuration of AIX via XML profiles. This capability builds on the Runtime Expert capability introduced in AIX 6 Technology Level 4. This new management capability features an IBM Systems Director interface.

The main differences from other IBM AIX Unix-like operating system is the Object Data Manager (ODM) - analog registry in Windows, in which binary data is stored on an installed system, on disk volumes, about the software installed. Also, there is a handy helper AIX SMIT, presented in both graphical and console versions of. SMIT can not enter long commands with many parameters. It starts with a parameter that specifies the name of the program and displays a table of parameters that can take this team. After choosing the desired settings, the command runs. If you prefer, you can view the generated SMIT'om team.

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* AIX V7.1 Base DVD 1 (TL 7100-00-01, 10/2010)
* AIX V7.1 Base DVD 2 (TL 7100-00-01, 10/2010)
* AIX V7.1 Update (TL 7100-00-01, 10/2010)
* OVA, AIX V7.1 Base (Open Archive Format, TL 7100-00-01, 10/2010)
* AIX Profile Manager
* AIX Toolbox for Linux Apps for Power, Source (9 / 2010)
* AIX Toolbox for Linux Apps (9 / 2010)
* AIX V7.1 Enterprise Edition Expansion Pack (9 / 2010)
* AIX V6.1 Expansion Pack (9 / 2010)
* Mozilla Firefox V3.5.8 for AIX

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