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2023

PowerVM v3 and HMC Tips - Apr 2023
HMC, BMC, VMI, eBMC, FSP Oh My! - Mar 2023

2022

Maintaining your AIX Systems - Sep 2022
Power10 Planning and requirements - Jul 2022
Understanding Power Supplies for Power Systems - Feb 2022
VIO Server Update Tips and Tricks - Feb 2022
AIX 7.3 and HMC v10 Upgrades - Jan 2022

2021

AIX Useful Tips and Tricks - Dec 2021
Updating the Power HMC - Nov 2021
A closer look at the E1080 - Sep 2021
Top Tips for VIO Servers - June 2021
Basic AIX Security Strategies - Apr 2021
Updating to HMC V9 - Mar 2021
AIX Performance Tuning Update - Feb 2021

2020

The Value of being an IBM Champion - Nov 2020
AIX - Lessons learned in 2020 - Oct 2020
New POWER9 scaleout servers - Aug 2020
Authenticating AIX against Active Directory - July 2020
Upgrading to Spectrum Scale 5.0.4.4
Upgrading to 7.2.4 - Apr 21, 2020
IC922 Server - Mar 2, 2020
What's new in AIX - Feb 3, 2020

2019

End of year AIX Systems Health Check - Dec 09, 2019
SAS Viya on POWER - Dec 2, 2019
Using NIM with VIO Servers - Sep 27, 2019
2019 AIX Systems Management Tips - Aug 19, 2019
Basic tuning concepts for a Spectrum Scale Cluster - Jun 3, 2019
PowerVM 3.1 Installation and Upgrade Experience - May 2019
Reap the benefits of HMC V9 Update - March 2019
Time to look at system maintenance and replacing servers - February 2019
Getting started with PowerAI - January 2019

2018

A Closer Look at the IBM PowerVM 3.1 Update - December 2018
Guide to LPM - October 2018
Understanding power for POWER9 - August 2018
New POWER9 Scale-up servers - August 2018
Upgrading your VIO Server - July 2018
Firmware on the new POWER HMC - June 2018
A closer look at the new HMC V9 - April 2018
Using FLRT and FLRTVC to plan fixes - April 2018
Technical specifications for S914, S922 and S924 - March 2018
Upgrading your HMC from 8.8.2 or later - February 2018
A closer look at the Power AC922 - January 2018

2017

Secure your VIO Server - November 2017
Tips I picked up at Power Systems Technical University - November 2017
Implementing a simple GPFS Single Node Cluster - October 2017
Architecting Power Systems IO - September 2017
Demystifying Entitlement - August 2017
AIX Flash Cache Statistics - July 2017
Tips and Tricks with NIM - July 2017
HMC Maintenance - May 2017
Using IBM Flash Cache on AIX 7.2 - April 2017
Everything you want to know about Blockchain - January 2017

2016

Guide to NovaLink and PowerVM 2.2.4 - October 2016
Complete Guide to System Maintenance - August 2016
Linux on Power - May 2016
Call Home Web - April 2016
Debugging Memory Leaks - February 2016
Flash Cache on AIX 7.2 - January 2016

Enterprise Tech Journal and Enterprise Executive - 2016
Enterprise Cloud Servers - November 2016
Should you wait for POWER9 - October 2016
Multiple Shared Processor Pools - August 2016
SAP Hana and IBM - July 2016
SR-IOV - June 2016
Big Data Status - May 2016
Tools you can use - April 2016
SAP Hana - March 2016
AIX and Flash 900 Storage - January 2016
Db2 Pure Scale - Enterprise Tech Journal - January 2016

2015

Finding security holes early with FltrVC - Enterprise Executive, Nov-Dec 2015
Meet the new Power LC Servers - November 2015
Right Platforming - Enterprise Executive, Sep-Oct 2015
Powerful Security - Enterprise Tech Journal, September 2015
PowerVC 1.2.3 - September 2015
New E850 Rocks - Enterprise Tech Journal, July 2015
VIOS 101: I/O - July 2015
VIOS 101: Network - June 2015
VIOS 101: Memory - May 2015
Benchmarking the right way - Enterprise Tech Journal, May 2015
VIOS 101: CPU and Processors - April 2015
POWER8 - it's time is now - March 2015
Security and PowerSC Trusted Surveyor - February 2015
Understanding power for POWER - January 2015

2014

A deeper dive into Enterprise POWER8 - November 2014
Enhanced Management with HMC v8 - October 2014
Hands on with POWER8 - August 2014
POWER8 - a great leap forward in Performance - Enterprise Tech Journal, July 2014
AIX Tools you can use - June 2014
Using the LPM feature of POWER8 - Enterprise Tech Journal, March 2014
Tuning AIX Network Performance - January 2014

2013

Manage AIX workloads with WLM - October 2013
Managing a VIO server with FBO - October 2013
How to backup and upgrade a VIO server - September 2013
Using ASO to boost performance - July 2013
Entitlements and VPs - May 2013
Midrange 750 and 760 - April 2013
IBM Power Symposium - New Orleans - May 2013
Common April 2013 - AIX Performance Tuning
Common April 2013 - NIM 101
Common April 2013 - Starting to look at Performance Problems
Common february 2013 - Upgrading AIX to v6 or v7

2012

Installing Systems Director v6.3 - October 2012
A closer look at PureApplication System - October 2012
2012 Performance Updates - September 2012
Tools you can use: Planning and memory - June 2012
A closer look at Pure Flex - Jul2012

2011

Cloud Considerations - Sep 2011
AIX v7 Security Features - Aug 2011
Cloud 101 - Jul 2011
Cloud 101 Key Questions - Jul 2011
Cloud 101 Resources - Jul 2011
using SSH for On Demand Systems Management - Apr 2011
Building a Legacy - 25 years of AIX - Feb 2011

2010

pTechu - Planning for Virtualization - October 2010
Updated AIX Performance Part 2 - Disk I/O and the network - Oct 2010
Updated AIX Performance Part 2 - Disk I/O and the network - Figure 1 - Oct 2010
Updated AIX Performance Part 1 - Paging, Memory and I/O - Sep 2010
Updated AIX Performance Part 1 - Paging, Memory and I/O - Figure 1 - Sep 2010
Updated AIX Performance Part 1 - Paging, Memory and I/O - Figure 2 - Sep 2010
Updated AIX Performance Part 1 - Paging, Memory and I/O - Figure 3 - Sep 2010
Smooth Operator - Why bother with TDAs? - Apr 2010
IBM's new support site - Mar 2010
Transitioning to Power7 - Feb 2010
Common - NIM Primer
Common - AIX Performance Tuning

2009

Virtualization 101 for Power - Oct 2009
Virtualization Table 1 - Oct 2009
Virtualization Resources - Oct 2009
Network Install Manager (NIM) Implementation - Jul 2009
NIM Code Sample 1 - Jul 2009
NIM Code Sample 2 - Jul 2009
NIM Resources - Jul 2009
Hardware Management Console 101 - June 2009
TCP Wrappers provide robust logs - May 2009
System Planning Tool - Mar 2009
Using WPARs Manager - Feb 2009
Samba and AIX v6.1 - Jan 2009
Samba References - Jan 2009
Samba Appendix 1 - Jan 2009
Samba Appendix 2 - Jan 2009

2008

Business Intelligence 101 - Dec 2008
Tools you can use - ncp and nweb - Nov 2008
Tuning AIX for Oracle - Oct 2008
EFS - Encrypted Filesystems - Aug 2008
IBM p6-520 and p6-550 - Jun 2008
Installing AIX v6 and upgrading from AIX v5.3 to v6 - Apr 2008
Sizing Servers - Feb 2008

2007

Installing AIX v5.3 from scratch - Dec 2007
AIX v6 Security - Oct 2007
SOA article in iSeries Magazine - Aug 2007
SOA Myth or reality - Aug 2007
Dynamic LPAR - Jun 2007
Linux Performance Tuning Part 2 - Apr 2007
eServer Cover - Linux Performance Tuning Part 1 - Feb 2007

2006

eServer Cover - Breaking the bottleneck with GPFS - Dec 2006
Appendix B for article above - Dec 2006
eServer - Security and SSH - Oct 2006
eServer Cover - AIX Performance Tuning - Aug 2006
eServer Cover - Disaster Recovery - Jun 2006
eServer - Server Consolidation - the Magic Elixir - Apr 2006
AiXtra - NIM Primer - Mar 2006
AiXtra - Ask the Admin Column - Samba - Mar 2006
AiXtra - IVM - Mar 2006

2005

AiXtra - Linux in AIX - Dec 2005
AiXtra - Samba Primer - Aug 2005
eServer - NFS V4 - Aug 2005
eServer - AIX Network Security - Jun 2005
AiXtra - Tuning JFS2 - My 2005
eServer - Virtualization - Feb 2005

2004

eServer - AIX Network Security - Dec 2004
AiXtra - Understanding Virtualization - Nov 2004
Balancing the On Demand World - Oct 2004
Paper in AIX Extra - Planning for POWER5 - Sep 2004
Paper in AIX Extra - a Look at Workload Manager - Jul 2004
Paper in AIX Extra - Tuning AIX with ioo and vmo - May 2004
Paper in AIX Extra - The Case for Linux - Apr 2004
Paper in AIX Extra - Planning for LPAR - Mar 2004

  • 2003
    Cover Story on UNIX Security - Oct 2003





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