| Flexibility |
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| Multi platform operating system |
Flexibility to select a POWER-based system helps protect investments in applications, a processes and skills |
| Affinity with Linux |
Helps reduce cost and improve e-business solutions by allowing portable Linux applications to be combined with the scalability and robustness of AIX |
| System Scalability |
| New JFS2 File System |
Efficient storage of large (4 Petabyte limit,1 Terabyte tested)files for deployment of advanced e-business applications |
| Selectable Logical Track Group (LTG) |
Helps administrators tune disk storage for optimum performance |
| e-business and Network Performance |
| Virtual IP Address (VIPA) |
Helps applications remain available if a network connection is lost |
| IP Multipath Routing |
Improves network availability by providing multiple routes to a destination |
| Multiple Default Gateways |
Keeps traffic moving through a network by detecting and routing around dead gateways |
| Extended Memory Allocator |
Helps improve performance of applications that request large numbers of small memory blocks |
| Security |
| Kerberos V5 Authentication (POWER only) |
Helps administrators simplify password authentication for users connecting to several machines |
| Java software |
| Included in base AIX |
Provides a popular cross-platform programming language for e-business applications |
| Systems and workload management |
| /proc file system |
Helps system administrators more easily review system workloads and processes for corrective action |
| RSCT |
Automates system monitoring thereby helping to improve system availability and performance |
| UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4)Printing |
Allows users comfortable with SVR4 print utilities to more easily use AIX |
| Accounting in Workload Manager |
Allows users to collect system resource usage information for billing or reporting purposes |
| Storage |
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| Optional Passive LVM Mirror Write Consistency |
Helps maintain application and data integrity in the event of a system crash |
| Optional hot spare disk support |
Improves availability of applications or data |
| Hot spot management commands for Logical Volume Manager |
Allows administrators to identify hot spots for relocation without sacrificing availability |
| Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) |
| Availability, Serviceability (RAS) Automated system hang recovery |
Helps systems remain available without administrator intervention |
| Consecutive counting of duplicate errors |
Avoids error capacity overloads |
| Ability to deactivate active paging space |
Dynamically allows deactivation without rebooting |
| Automatic dump analysis and e-mail forwarding |
Accelerates customer support and problem diagnosis |
| Dump compression and capacity warning |
Helps avoid situations where dump exceeds system recording capacity |
| Development and Performance Tools |
| "pax" archive format |
Enables 64-bit ready support for files larger than 2GB |
| New and enhanced Tools Plus program interfaces for access to Performance Monitor data |
New and enhanced Tools Plus program interfaces for access to Performance Monitor data |
