AIX

AIX 7.1

Binary Compatibility

  • AIX 7 is fully binary compatible with AIX 6 and AIX 5 releases
  • AIX 7 is binary compatibly for 32-bit programs created on AIX 6, AIX 5 and AIX 4
  • Binary Compatibility Guarantee

Performance and Scalability

  • AIX 7 can support Logical Partitions of up to 256 cores / 1024 threads
  • AIX 7 fully exploits POWER7 processor capabilities including SMT4
  • 64-bit kernel
  • Industry-leading benchmarks
  • Support for POWER4™, PowerPC® 970, POWER5™, POWER6® and POWER7® processors

Virtualization

  • Workload Partitions
  • Enablement for running AIX 5.2 in a WPAR requires the “AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7” product available separately
  • Live Application Mobility
  • Support for POWER6 and POWER7 virtualization features

Enterprise Security

  • Role Based Access Control with security domains
  • Encrypting Filesystem
  • Trusted AIX
  • Secure by Default installation option
  • AIX Security Expert
  • Trusted Execution
  • Hardware assisted encryption

Near Continuous Availability

  • AIX Concurrent Kernel Updates
  • Dynamic Tracing with probevue including support for C, C++, Java and FORTRAN
  • Support POWER6 and POWER7 Storage Keys
  • Live Dump
  • POWER6 and POWER7 firmware-assisted dump
  • Functional Recovery Routines
  • Enhanced software First Failure Data Capture

Manageability

  • Workload Partitions manageability features
  • Systems Director Console for AIX
  • Integrated Filesystem Snapshot
  • POWER6 and POWER7 automatic, variable Page Size
  • Enhanced default performance tuning

 

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