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.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

MD5 for AIX


If you need to run an MD5 check-sum on a file on AIX, you will notice that there's not md5 or md5sum command available on AIX. Instead, use the following command to do this:

# csum -h MD5 [filename]
Note: csum can't handle files larger than 2 GB.