AIX 6 To Be Released in November 2007Due to be released in November 2007, with promises to deliver new and exciting advances to the current AIX portfolio is AIX 6.
The planned AIX release will allow full binary compatibility with previous releases of AIX 5L, and will work on any hardware supported by AIX6 including POWER4, PPC970, POWER5 and POWER6.
AIX6 is synergistic with the naming of the new server range POWER6 and again IBM has proven that their roadmap provides ease of upgrade and a long life for your investments. The AIX planned enhancements will provide a tremendous step forward.
Helping to improve IT infrastructure efficiency through consolidation of multiple workloads on fewer servers, tightened security through new tools and security infrastructure and improved application availability through features designed to provide continuous availability.
The following are some of the features predicted to be available:*
- Partition Mobility
- Workload Partitions
- Application Mobility
- Virtual Shared Pools
- Processor Recovery
- Granular CUoD now billed by the minute
One of my favourites is the planned AIX Live Mobility. This allows the movement of a running workload or partition from one server to another which will help to avoid outages, providing multi-system workload balancing. How amazing is that!
Download Links For AIX
You can now access the first ever ‘Open Beta’ web download for an AIX release. Go have a squiz, test it and see what everyone’s getting excited about.
For more information and to download the code:
https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/ibm/aix6beta/
For more details on the AIX 6 preview:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/6/preview.html
Some of the above features are only available in conjunction with POWER6 hardware.
*The above is a “Statement of Direction”, and is subject to change by IBM.
