AIX 6.1 TL7 includes IBM Systems Director Common Agent (cas agent). It is installed as part of the System Management Client Software bundle which is part of the default install options. Unfortun...
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Upgrading the IBM Storwize V7000 is an easy procedure without interruption as the storage architecture provides 2 nodes, and upgrade runs on one node before shutting down and upgrading the other no...
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One of my customers had a problem on his Power System (P7) and needed to access the console using an IBM 3153 terminal. We don’t see a lot of this old stuffs (1990s) because many people are ...
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Since I reinstall my laptop with Windows 7 64 bits and all my tools (because of a memory upgrade), I had the "good" idea to install Office 2010 Suite in 64 bits version too ! Unfortunately, Nmon A...
Read moreWhen properly configured, an AIX server can act as :
In our case, iSCSI initiator will be an AIX 7.1 (7100-00-03-1115) and the iSCSI target will be a Storwize V7000 Unified.
A new firmware level has been released and corrects a serious bug :
This strange bug due to a known Linux kernel issue which result in a kernel panic (due to a internal counter overflow) after 208 days of uninterrupted time and reboot of both nodes was affecting SVC controller nodes, Storwize V7000, and Storwize V7000 unified block node canisters.
This issue affects the following releases : 6.2.0.x (excepting V6.2.0.5), 6.3.0.x, 1.3.0.x (for unified)
Upgrading the IBM Storwize V7000 is an easy procedure without interruption as the storage architecture provides 2 nodes, and upgrade runs on one node before shutting down and upgrading the other node.
This upgrade operation will take approximately 30 minutes.
Since I reinstall my laptop with Windows 7 64 bits and all my tools (because of a memory upgrade), I had the “good” idea to install Office 2010 Suite in 64 bits version too !
Unfortunately, Nmon Analyser don’t work under Excel 2010 64 bits. I tried to figure it out by changing some function declaration and comenting some calls and I finally get to have it working. I think it is doing the work and it can help few people but I’m not a VBA expert, so let me know if there are some issues.
Here is my unofficial release 
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