| Interoperability |
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| Affinity with Linux |
Helps deliver services across technology boundaries by allowing portable Linux applications to be combined with the scalability and robustness of AIX 5L |
| CSM interface |
Optionally installable and separately licensed software helps drive down cost associated with managing clustered servers running AIX 5L and Linux |
| System Scalability |
| JFS2 File System |
Efficient storage of large (up to 16 Terabyte) files that assist deployment of advanced applications and databases |
| Large Pages1 |
16MB pages help improve throughput for compute-intensive workloads and applications that require large amounts of data to be transferred between memory and storage |
| Dynamic Resource Management |
| Dynamic Logical Partitioning2 |
Enables addition or removal of processors, adapters or memory without system reboot, improving system availability and resource utilization |
| Dynamic Capacity Upgrade on Demand2 |
Allows activation of additional processors when needed—without a system reboot, for greater flexibility and improved workload throughput |
| Dynamic Processor Sparing (with CUoD)2 |
Supports dynamic substitution of error threshold processors with spare, unlicensed processors to help keep systems available and processing their assigned workloads |
| Workload Manager |
Adds automatic time based policies and new control points to allocate resources to applications within a single system image |
| e-business and Network Performance |
| Virtual IP Address (VIPA) |
Helps applications remain available if a network connection is lost |
| IP Multi-path 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 |
| Mobile IPv6 |
Extends Internet connectivity to handheld devices |
| Network Tuning Interface |
Helps reduce administrative effort associated with managing and tuning networks |
| Security |
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| Kerberos V5 Authentication |
Helps administrators simplify password authentication for users connecting to several machines |
| Pluggable Authentication Module |
Permits the use of distributed security services to reduce administrative effort associated with linking users to multiple applications |
| Enterprise Identity Mapping |
Allows a user single-point access to a network comprised of heterogeneous server platforms |
| Java and XMl Parser for Java |
| Included in base AIX |
Delivers a popular cross-platform programming language for e-business applications and a parser than enables applications to read and write XML data |
| Systems Management |
| compare_report |
Provides reports that compare fix levels on a system to a reference system or base level of fixes for easier administration |
| RSCT Resource Monitoring and Control |
Delivers clustering technology to automate resource monitoring, improving system availability and performance |
| Distributed Command Execution Manager |
Offers centralized management of groups of AIX 5L operating system-based servers through a Web browser interface |
| Storage |
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| Split Mirror backup support |
Helps reduce any impact to system performance by removing the need to rebuild an entire mirror |
| JFS2 Filesystem Snapshot |
Helps administrators monitor and manage a filesystem for action and easier backup |
| I/O size and alignment for Logical Volume Manager |
Removes size and alignment restrictions to help improve filesystem and overall system performance |
| Storage Area Network (SAN) boot |
Adds capability to initiate system boot from a single point-of-contact in a SAN |
| Migration via Alternate Disk Install |
Improves management of multiple operating system migrations in environments where downtime is critical |
| Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) |
| Automated system hang recovery |
Helps systems remain available without administrator intervention |
| Dynamic Processor Deallocation |
Proactively checks processor integrity and removes failing processors so that systems are more available |
| System UE-Gard |
Improves system uptime by proactively managing checkstop errors at a thread level |
| Multi-path I/O (MPIO) |
Enhances internal reliability of storage connections and permits maintenance deferral while offering interoperability between heterogeneous storage subsystems in a SAN |
| Development and Performance Tools |
| POSIX Realtime |
Provides support for easier application porting |
| Xprofiler |
Helps developers identify the most processor intensive software functions via a graphical interface |
| Template-based performance tuning |
Allows administrators the capability to capture system tuning schemes via stanza files and export them to multiple servers |
