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IBM Cloud PowerVS (Virtual Server) allows access to AIX for £2, €3, or $3 per day. New in 2022
This article points you to eight YouTube videos from Nigel on PowerVS Getting Started with information and ideas to learn hands-on AIX.
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| Power10 Servers Infographics Covering the Power10 chip, Infrastructure and all the models in 10 pages New in 2022 |
| AIX Workload Manager (Process classes used to monitor, graph, and control CPU & memory) New in 2022 |
| njmon Intro and Update Updated in 2022 |
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| Why upgrade from AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2? New in 2021 |
| InfluxDB C Client Library for Capturing Statistics New in 2021 |
| Linux: Installing InfluxDB 1.8 and Grafana 7 and njmon New in 2021 |
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| Performance: nmon: Can we break out four Oracle instances graphs? New in 2020 |
| Performance: njmon and nimon Listing Tags, Measures & Statistics New in 2020 |
| Performance: nimon for AIX and Linux working with Prometheus New in 2020 |
| VIOS: VIOS Supported Applications - and Software New in 2020 |
| Performance: njmon and nimon Internal Data Collector New in 2020 |
| Performance: Uploading stats to InfluxDB in the C language - like the new nimon tool New in 2020 |
| AIX: Top Picks: AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications New in 2020 |
| AIX: IBM POWER9 Server IC922 9183-22X New in 2020 |
| AIX: AIX Active Memory Expansion (AME) - the secret weapon and serious cost reduction on memory Reworked in 2020 |
| Power: Experiments in Power Server Evacuation via LPM & HMC Command Line Reworked in 2020 |
| AIX: Scrubbing, Shredding or Sanitizing your Disks to Remove All Data via a small C program Updated in 2022 |
| Power: Time and Date Management with PowerVM - by special request from the PowerVM blog |
| Performance: Get free nmon and njmon training level 1 and 2 (Performance Monitoring) |
| Power: Power Systems: a safe choice for the future |
| Performance: AIX Performance Issue but no earlier nmon data to compare! |
| AIX: Checking AIX Protection against Spectre and Meltdown Settings |
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| Most popular and Best Practice |
| Shared Storage Pool (SSP) Best Practice Reworked in 2020 |
| Upgrading to VIOS 3.1 Reworked in 2020 |
| AIX 7 SSD/Flash Cache Best Practice |
| Performance: nextract plus HMC REST API Performance Statistics For InfluxDB and Grafana Reworked in 2022 |
| nmon to JSON plus new direct JSON monitor |
| Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) |
| VIOS Supported Applications - and Software New in 2020 |
| Upgrading to VIOS 3.1 |
| VIOS Performance Advisor called part |
| Debugging VIOS padmin commands |
| Sizing the Virtual I/O Server (Rules of Thumb) |
| Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) Fail-over with Load Balancing - also called Load Sharing |
| AIX Operating System |
| AIX Workload Manager (Process classes used to monitor, graph, and control CPU & memory) New in 2022 |
| A Brief History of AIX New in 2022 |
| Best Practice Migrating To AIX 7.2 New in 2021 |
| AIX: Why upgrade from AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2? New in 2021 |
| AIX: Installing Influxdb1.8 and Grafana7 New in 2020 |
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| AIX Active Memory Expansion (AME) - the secret weapon and serious cost reduction on memory Reworked in 2020 |
| Did I reboot AIX after the upgrade? New in 2020 |
| "Out of the box" AIX Security Hardening plus PowerSC "quick wins" |
| Quick Intro to the AIX Best Bits |
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| AIX Memory Usage - or - Who is using the memory and how? |
| Determining AIX optimal memory size from nmon data |
| Checking AIX Protection against Spectre and Meltdown Settings |
| PowerVC Pre-Capture Checklist |
| Are you an AIX person or a POWER person? |
| AIX Virtual Processor Folding is Misunderstood |
| Workload Partition (WPAR) - Answers |
| Am I a WPAR? (workload partition) or a regular AIX VM (virtual machine)? |
| AIX and yum - Get those Open Source apps on AIX the easy way |
| Things have moved on since AIX 5.2 (2002) Refreshed |
| AIX 7 SSD/Flash Cache Best Practice |
| AIX Performance Issue but no earlier nmon data to compare! |
| Memory Analysis on AIX |
| Core files filling important file systems? Want email alerts about each core dump? |
| Core files and email alerts via the ODM & errpt system |
| AIX 5.3 on POWER8 Review from Gareth Coates |
| Shared Storage Pools (SSP) - this is a VIOS function |
| Shared Storage Pool (SSP) Best Practice |
| VIOS Shared Storage Pool phase 6 - New Features 2016 |
| VIOS Shared Storage Pool 2013 - How fast is the disk I/O ? |
| Shared Storage Pools - Hands-On Fun with Virtual Disks (LU) by Example |
| Shared Storage Pools Cheat Sheet |
| Shared Storage Pools - Growing the Pool using LUN Expansion |
| Shared Storage Pool and Disaster Recovery in 30 seconds |
| How many Shared Storage Pools in the world? |
| Shared Storage Pools - Migrating to New Disk Subsystem |
| Shared Storage Pools question on two pools? |
| Shared Storage Pool Stuck or Down? Don't Panic - Raise a PMR |
| Shared Storage Pool config dump command |
| Shared Storage Pools - advanced lu -list the search continues |
| VIOS Shared Storage Pool Single Repository Disk = Not a Problem |
| VIOS Shared Storage Pools - Reusing Disks |
| CPU and Memory Affinity and CPU Scheduling |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 1 - local, near and far RAM Architecture All CPU Memory Affinity in update 2020 |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 2 - local, near and far RAM Commands |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 3 - Scheduling processes to SMT and Virtual Processors |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 4 - Aggressive Intelligent Threads |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 5 - Low Entitlement has a Bad Side Effect |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 6 - Too Many Virtual Processors has a Bad Side Effect |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 7 - VM CPU placement also needs RAM |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 8 - Dynamic LPAR changes can mess up your placement |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 9 - Firmware Updates |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 10 - Why Local & Far on Lower End machines? |
| POWER CPU Memory Affinity 11 - I have a 10 core POWER7 chip, eh! |
| mpstat -d and the undocumented stats |
| nmon & njmon |
| njmon Intro and Update Updated in 2022 |
| InfluxDB C Client Library for Capturing Statistics New in 2021 |
| Linux: Installing InfluxDB 1.8 and Grafana 7 and njmon New in 2021 |
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| nmon: Can we break out four Oracle instances graphs? New in 2020 |
| nimon for AIX and Linux working with Prometheus New in 2020 |
| njmon and nimon internal data collector New in 2020 |
| Uploading stats to InfluxDB in the C language - like the new nimon tool New in 2020 |
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| nmon Data Files: Are they a Security Risk? |
| nmon for Linux v16 - New Stats, On-screen Facelift & more |
| nmon and External Data Collectors |
| nmon to JSON plus new direct JSON monitor |
| nmon for AIX detects LPM & DLPAR Changes |
| nmon - I can't see all the CPUs on-screen. Please Help! |
| Just got sent 1000's of nmon files! Help! - nsum shell script tools |
| How can I understand performance issues from nmon data? |
| nmon2WLE using nmon data for IBM WorkLoad Estimator Input |
| AIX Performance Issue but no earlier nmon data to compare! |
| Determining AIX optimal memory size from nmon data |
| OpenPOWER IBM S822LC - Adding NVIDIA GPU stats to nmon using two methods |
| FAQ2: Analyzing Large Volumes of nmon Data |
| Performance and Tuning |
| Performance: nextract plus HMC REST API Performance Statistics For InfluxDB and Grafana Reworked in 2022 |
| Roll Your Own AIX Performance Monitor via Code Samples |
| Using ndisk64 to test new disk set-ups like Flash Systems |
| Sizing with rperf - Dont Forget the Assumptions |
| Nigel's wiggly worms program |
| AIX user: "Austin, We've Got a Problem" & Performance PMRs |
| "Out of the box" AIX Security Hardening plus PowerSC "quick wins" |
| FAQ1: How much Paging Space Rule of Thumb? |
| FAQ2: Analyzing Large Volumes of nmon Data |
| FAQ3: How can I Monitor Shared Processor Pools longer term? |
| FAQ4: Hostnames short or long? |
| FAQ5: How to use smitty to add a 2nd IP address & Network? |
| Computer Room Temperature Monitoring with a Raspberry Pi |
| HMC REST API Logout to Close Sessions |
| Adding Raspberry Pi measured Temps to InfluxDB/Grafana |
| Stress test your AIX or Linux server with nstress |
| Want to Learn Python? My Starter Pack |
| Monitoring POWER9 CPU GHz but it Looks Too Low |
| Get a rPerf performance rating for your AIX LPAR |
| Federico Vagnini in Italy at IBM |
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| POWER Hardware |
| Power10 Servers Infographics Covering the Power10 chip, Infrastructure and all the models in 10 pages New in 2022 |
| Power Systems: a safe choice for the future |
| Lift Tool and decommissioning our Power E870 |
| RS232 Dumb Terminals = a painful Blast from the Past |
| Enterprise Server E870/E880/E980 and SAN boot |
| HMC 7063-CR1 hardware install (POWER8 based HMC) |
| HMC 7063-CR1 software install (POWER8 based HMC) |
| POWER9 Enterprise E950 and E980 Information |
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| POWER8 Enterprise Power E870 - 2nd Look at the Cabling |
| POWER8 Enterprise Power E870 - 3rd Look at the Handles |
| Power E850 - Removing the CPU & RAM Airflow Cover=Power-Off |
| POWER8 Scale-Out models and the "Adapter Hot-Plug" Task |
| Linux on POWER |
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| Linux on POWER Ethernet adapters: Which is Which? |
| Old but Still Good |
| Using rrdtool to graph vmstat output - a worked example |
| Science Fiction Books Every UNIX/Linux/AIX Person Should Read |
| How does a Web server actually work? Find out with nweb Reworked in 2020 |
| Top Ten Smarter Technologies predicted from 2010! Did we guess the future correctly? |
| 10 Gbit Ethernet Bad Assumptions and Best Practice |
| PowerVM Virtual Ethernet Speed is often confused with VIOS SEA speed |
| POWER System Firmware Warnings & Red Lights on the Dashboard |
| Raspberry Pi & Thoughts on Game Changing Technology |
| Virtual Fibre Channel for NPIV Requires Memory too! |
