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| Upgrading AIX From 6.1 to 7.1 For WMB7 |
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| yalmasri |
 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:52 pm Post subject: Upgrading AIX From 6.1 to 7.1 For WMB7 |
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Hi,
Did anybody practically experienced running WMB7 on both AIX 6.1 & 7.1? Any issues encountered or any benefits gained? |
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| lancelotlinc |
| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:19 am Post subject: Re: Upgrading AIX From 6.1 to 7.1 For WMB7 |
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| yalmasri |
| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:46 am Post subject: Re: Upgrading AIX From 6.1 to 7.1 For WMB7 |
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IBM AIX support life is normally 5 years, and 6.1 is about to cease receiving support in 2 years presumably. We're having new machines to our production environment and want to make sure that 7.1 has no "unlisted" issues people discovered by experience. Also I want to support the migration argument by any tangible benefits. |
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| dogorsy |
| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:51 am Post subject: Re: Upgrading AIX From 6.1 to 7.1 For WMB7 |
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| yalmasri wrote: |
| IBM AIX support life is normally 5 years, and 6.1 is about to cease receiving support in 2 years presumably. We're having new machines to our production environment and want to make sure that 7.1 has no "unlisted" issues people discovered by experience. Also I want to support the migration argument by any tangible benefits. |
In that case you should be posting in the AIX forum if there is one. As lancelotlinc said:
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The IIB product is not affected by the OS.
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| lancelotlinc |
| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:56 am Post subject: Re: Upgrading AIX From 6.1 to 7.1 For WMB7 |
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| yalmasri wrote: |
IBM AIX support life is normally 5 years, and 6.1 is about to cease receiving support in 2 years presumably. We're having new machines to our production environment and want to make sure that 7.1 has no "unlisted" issues people discovered by experience. Also I want to support the migration argument by any tangible benefits. |
The tangible benefit is primarily in how the POWER7 superscalar symmetric multiprocessor architecture substantially evolved from the POWER6 design.
POWER7 improves on POWER6 horesepower efficiency through multiple cores and simultaneous multithreading, which yields greater utilization of CPU and I/O resources through slicing and dicing these resources into smaller assignable units.
POWER 7 processor has up to eight cores, and four threads per core, for a total capacity of 32 simultaneous threads for a total capacity of 1,024 virtual CPUs per board.
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These facts do not impact IIB/WMB directly. They enable all applications to have better performance. I understand from reading the WMB V8 performance reports that some optimizations are used when deploying and running IIB artifacts on POWER7.
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| yalmasri |
| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 5:10 am Post subject: Re: Upgrading AIX From 6.1 to 7.1 For WMB7 |
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| dogorsy wrote: |
In that case you should be posting in the AIX forum if there is one. |
dogorsy,
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We're having new machines to our production environment and want to make sure that 7.1 has no "unlisted" issues people discovered by experience |
This is as far as WMB7 is concerned
| lancelotlinc wrote: |
| These facts do not impact IIB/WMB directly. They enable all applications to have better performance. I understand from reading the WMB V8 performance reports that some optimizations are used when deploying and running IIB artifacts on POWER7. |
Thanks, that was helpful |
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