AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM.
Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC (POWER) version 7 enables a unique performance advantage for AIX OS.
POWER7 features new capabilities using multiple cores and multiple CPU threads, creating a pool of virtual CPUs.
AIX 7 includes a new built-in clustering capability called Cluster Aware
AIX POWER7 systems include the Active Memory Expansion feature.

Friday, November 25, 2011

How to enable the paths of the AIX Box

Different ways to Enable the path of the channel.

# lspath -l hdisk4
Failed  hdisk4 fscsi0
Failed  hdisk4 fscsi0
Enabled hdisk4 fscsi1
Enabled hdisk4 fscsi1

# rmpath -l hdisk4 -p fscsi0
paths Defined

#  lspath -l hdisk4
Defined hdisk4 fscsi0
Defined hdisk4 fscsi0
Enabled hdisk4 fscsi1
Enabled hdisk4 fscsi1

#  rmpath -d -l hdisk4 -p fscsi0
paths Deleted

# cfgmgr

# lspath -l hdisk4
Enabled hdisk4 fscsi0
Enabled hdisk4 fscsi0
Enabled hdisk4 fscsi1
Enabled hdisk4 fscsi1

Or you can use the chpath to enable the path as shown below

#chpath -l hdiskxx -p fscsixx -s enable

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