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

Paging space best practices


Here are a couple of rules that your paging spaces should adhere to, for best performance:

The size of paging space should match the size of the memory.
Use more than one paging space, on different disks to each other.
All paging spaces should have the same size.
All paging spaces should be mirrored.
Paging spaces should not be put on "hot" disks.