Preface
This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on the enhancements to IBM AIX® Version 7.1 Standard Edition. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments.
AIX Version 7.1 introduces many new features, including:
•Domain Role Based Access Control
•Workload Partition enhancements
•Topas performance tool enhancements
•Terabyte segment support
•Cluster Aware AIX functionality
AIX Version 7.1 offers many other new enhancements, and you can explore them all in this publication.
For clients who are not familiar with the enhancements of AIX through Version 5.3, a companion publication, AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide, SG24-7559, is available.
The team who wrote this book
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center.
Richard Bassemir is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist in the ISV Business Strategy and Enablement organization in the Systems and Technology Group located in Austin, Texas. He has seven years of experience in IBM System p® technology. He has worked at IBM for 33 years. He started in mainframe design, design verification, and test, and moved to Austin to work in the Software Group on various integration and system test assignments before returning to the Systems and Technology Group to work with ISVs to enable and test their applications on System p hardware.
Thierry Fauck is a Certified IT Specialist working in Toulouse, France. He has 25 years of experience in Technical Support with major HPC providers. As system administrator of the French development lab, his areas of expertise include AIX, VIOS, SAN, and PowerVM™. He is currently leading an FVT development team for WPAR and WPAR mobility features. He authored a white paper on WPARs and actively contributed to the WPAR IBM Redbooks publication. This is his second AIX Differences Guide publication.
Chris Gibson is an AIX and PowerVM specialist. He works for Southern Cross Computer Systems, an IBM Business Partner located in Melbourne, Australia. He has 11 years of experience with AIX and is an IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert - AIX. He is an active member of the AIX community and has written numerous technical articles on AIX and PowerVM for IBM developerWorks®. He also writes his own AIX blog on the IBM developerWorks website. Chris is also available online on Twitter (@cgibbo). This is his second Redbooks publication having previously co-authored the NIM from A to Z in AIX 5L™ book.
Brad Gough is a technical specialist working for IBM Global Services in Sydney, Australia. Brad has been with IBM since 1997. His areas of expertise include AIX, PowerHA™, and PowerVM. He is an IBM Certified Systems Expert - IBM System p5® Virtualization Technical Support and IBM eServer™ p5 and pSeries® Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3. This is his third IBM Redbooks publication.
Murali Neralla is a Senior Software Engineer in the ISV Business Strategy and Enablement organization. He is also a Certified Consulting IT Specialist. He has over 15 years of experience working at IBM. Murali currently works with the Financial Services Sector solution providers to enable their applications on IBM Power Systems™ running AIX.
Armin Röll works as a Power Systems IT specialist in Germany. He has 15 years of experience in Power Systems and AIX pre-sales technical support and, as a team leader, he fosters the AIX skills community. He holds a degree in experimental physics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He co-authored the AIX Version 4.3.3, the AIX 5L Version 5.0, the AIX 5L Version 5.3 and the AIX 6.1 Differences Guide IBM Redbooks.
Murali Vaddagiri is a Senior Staff Software Engineer working for IBM Systems and Technology Group in India. He has over 7 years of experience in AIX operating system and PowerHA development. He holds a Master of Science degree from BITS, Pilani, India. His areas of expertise include security, clustering, and virtualization. He has filed nine US patents and authored several disclosure publications in these areas.
Scott Vetter, PMP, managed the project that produced this publication. Scott has also authored a number of IBM Redbooks publications.
Special thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Khalid Filali-Adib, Amit Agarwal, Mark Alana, André L Albot, Jim Allen, James P Allen, Vishal Aslot, Carl Bender, David Bennin, Philippe Bergheaud, Kavana N Bhat, Pramod Bhandiwad, Subhash C Bose, Francoise Boudier, Edgar Cantú, Omar Cardona, Christian Caudrelier, Shajith Chandran, Shaival J Chokshi, Bi`nh T Chu, Diane Chung, David Clissold, Jaime Contreras, Richard M Conway, Julie Craft, Brian Croswell, Jim Czenkusch, Zhi-wei Dai, Timothy  Damron, Rosa Davidson, Frank Dea, John S. DeHart, Baltazar De Leon III, Saurabh Desai, Saravanan Devendra, Frank Feuerbacher, Eric Fried, Paul B Finley, Marty Fullam, Jim Gallagher, Derwin Gavin, Kiran Grover, Robin Hanrahan, Eric S Haase, Nikhil Hegde, David Hepkin, Kent Hofer, Tommy (T.U.) Hoffner, Duen-wen Hsiao, Binh Hua, Jason J Jaramillo, Cheryl L Jennings, Alan Jiang, Deanna M Johnson, Madhusudanan Kandasamy, Kari Karhi, Christian Karpp, Kunal Katyayan, KiWaon Kim, Felipe Knop, George M Koikara, Jay Kruemcke, Wei Kuo, Manoj Kumar, Kam Lee, Su Liu, Ray Longhi, Michael Lyons, Dave Marquardt, Mark McConaughy, Gerald McBrearty, Deborah McLemore, Dan McNichol, Bruce Mealey, Alex Medvedev, Jeffrey Messing, James Moody, Steven Molis, Shawn Mullen, David Navarro, Frank L Nichols, Jeff Palm, Roocha K Pandya, Stephen B Peckham, David R Posh, Prasad V Potluri, Bruce M Potter, Xiaohan Qin, Harinipriya Raghunathan, Poornima Sripada Rao, Lance Russell, Gary Ruzek, Michael Schmidt, Chris Schwendiman, Ravi Shankar, David Sheffield, Sameer K Sinha, Marc Stephenson, Wojciech Stryjewski, Masato Suzuki, Jyoti B Tenginakai, Teerasit Tinnakul, Nathaniel S Tomsic, Kim-Khanh V (Kim) Tran, Vi T (Scott) Tran, Brian Veale, Lakshmanan Velusamy, Guha Prasadh Venkataraman, R Vidya, Patrick T Vo, Ann Wigginton, Andy Wong, Lakshmi Yadlapati, Rae Yang, Sungjin Yook
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