Additional documents of interest
- Successful Business Continuity - Part 1 - Users and Groups
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This article was published in the April 2005 issue of
AIX Update magazine
and discusses system administration needs and requirements oriented
around users and groups. The overall emphasis of this series of
articles is for implementation of enterprise wide unique identifiers
for a variety of parameters, such as user names, group names, UID and
GID numbers.
- Successful Business Continuity - Part 2 - Machine and Host Names
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This article was published in the May 2005 issue of
AIX Update magazine
and discusses naming structures for machines, systems, adapters, and
aliases. The overall emphasis of this series of articles is for
implementation of enterprise wide unique identifiers for a variety of
parameters.
- Successful Business Continuity - Part 3 - Volume Names
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This article was published in the December 2005 issue of
AIX Update magazine
and discusses naming structures for volume groups, logical volumes, log
logical volumes, directory mount points, etc. The overall emphasis of
this series of articles is for implementation of enterprise wide unique
identifiers for a variety of parameters.
- Successful Business Continuity - Part 4 - MQ Series, Startup/Shutdown Scripts, Error Processing
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This article was published in the April 2006 issue of
AIX Update magazine
and discusses how to implement AIX in an environment dedicated to
business continuity. The topic of this article is the assignment of MQ
Series queue names and aliases, resource group startup and shutdown
script names (Application startup/shutdown script names), error logging,
and error notification.
- Successful Business Continuity - Part 5 - Miscellaneous topics
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This article was published in the August 2006 issue of
AIX Update magazine
and discusses how to implement AIX in an environment dedicated to
business continuity. A variety of topics is discussed in this article
including automated documentation generation and management.
- Automated Microcode Management System
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One of the most difficult administration tasks in an AIX environment is
attempting to keep the firmware and microcode up-to-date. Mt Xia has
devised an automated method of gathering the Microcode information,
determining which microcode needs to be updated, generating reports, and
uploading the required microcode updates to each individual system.
- Calculating the size of a Virtual Processor
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This document describes the algorithms used to calculate the size of a
virtual processor when using shared processors in an LPAR. The IBM
documentation describes how to calculate CPU utilization, NOT how to
size for configuration, this document clarifies this process. A
description of the HMC input fields for the processor tab is included.
- Basics of Partition Load Manager Setup
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This presentation was provided by Ron Barker from IBM regarding the PLM Basic
setup.
- ppt
- pdf
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Storage Standards
All operating system, application, and data storage in the Mt Xia
environment shall be configured external to the system. The purpose of
this is to increase the recoverability of the system, reduce hardware
related outages, and to centralize the management of storage.
All systems will have multiple hardware paths to the storage, those
paths may be physical or virtual.
Multiple volume groups shall be created in the AIX environment. The
operating system volume group, called "rootvg", will contain only
operating system related applications and files. The "rootvg" will
contain a minimum amount of storage.
The standard "rootvg" will contain a single 9 GB disk that exists on
the SAN and is mirrored by the SAN environment. Multiple paths to the
"rootvg" disk are configured using IBM's Multi-Path I/O (MPIO) device
driver. Optionally, the "rootvg" may have an "alt_disk" that exists on
internal storage. The "alt_disk" is used to perform Operating System
updates.
All non-operating system related programs and data will be stored in
volume groups other than "rootvg". The Volume group names will be
created in accordance with Mt Xia's VG naming
standards and will contain storage as required by the supported
business function.
All non-rootvg volume groups residing on Hitachi SAN based storage
will utilize the latest HDLM driver and multiple hardware paths to the
SAN. The HDLM driver is updated on a regular basis.
Further information regarding Mt Xia's storage standards can be obtained
from the following document:
Unix-Storage-Presentation.pdf
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