I built a basic two-node PowerHA SystemMirror (HACMP) cluster for my team a little while ago to use as a test environment for patch updates. While it wasn’t a true reflection of how the production ...

Below I detail how I patched over 800 AIX LPAR’s that were exposed by CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169, also known as shellshock, using the NIM server. From everything that I’ve been reading on IBM...

We recently upgraded the firmare on our Power frame, which required shutting down some of our AIX LPAR’s. The firmware upgrade went well, as did starting up all the AIX LPAR’s, except for one. This...

The problem I think at some point during a systems administrators life span, they see the below error message when trying to mount a filesystem. # mount /test Replaying log for /dev/fslv01. mount...

I’ve been working with a client who is going through the process of migrating from physical Power 5 servers to a virtualized Power 7 environment with PowerVM. Due to the I/O limitations in the P5 s...

Combining NFS with PowerHA we can achieve a HANFS (Highly Available Network File System). The basic concept behind this solution is that one node in the cluster mounts the resource locally, and off...