The latest versions of the AIX® operating system give your business operational efficiencies, increased utilization and enhanced productivity that you simply can't get from older versions. In other words, it helps your IT infrastructure support the rapidly changing requirements of today’s business environment.
Built-in features like Workload Partitions and Dynamic Logical Partitioning (Dynamic LPAR) and Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) allow you to shift workloads and add capacity simply and easily, almost instantly. The software upgrade itself is intuitive and if you need assistance, migration services are readily available.
Why upgrade to AIX 7?
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
Reference center
Product specifications and reports
This document summarizes the functional enhancements and new system support added at each update of the AIX operating system, the Bonus Pack, the Web Download Pack and the Expansion Pack.
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