Planning for AIX

AIX® has evolved from its beginnings on the IBM® RT to become the operating system of choice for the largest UNIX servers of IBM. AIX is an enterprise operating system that scales from blade servers all the way up to massively parallel supercomputers.

Certified as C2 security-compliant by the U.S. government, AIX also supports industry-standard security features such as Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM), authentication by x.509 certificates, OpenSSH, Kerberos, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). AIX fully exploits the features of the PS703 or PS704 blade server with its 64-bit kernel and support for over 16 terabytes (TB) of disk space.

With AIX installed, the PS703 or PS704 blade server can run thousands of software titles that were written for the AIX platform, taking full advantage of the rich capabilities of AIX.

Plan whether to use PowerVM® Editions.
You can run AIX in a client partition after installing Virtual I/O Server and using Micro-Partitioning® to partition the blade server. Installing AIX as a client is useful for installing multiple AIX systems, or for installing AIX and Linux clients on the same blade server.

You can also install AIX in a dedicated partition if you do not need to install Linux or other AIX partitions. AIX has virtualization capabilities of its own.
Plan to install Virtual I/O Server, if you are going to use the PowerVM feature.
See Planning for PowerVM Editions.
Plan to install AIX using the planning documentation cited in the IBM System p® Information Roadmap.

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