What is the difference between aix and linux

RedHat Commands. OpenSolaris Commands. Linux Commands. SunOS Commands. FreeBSD Commands. Full Man Repository. Advanced Search. Contact Us. Forum Rules. Mark Forums Read. Thread Tools. View Public Profile for arif AIX a. LVM is mandatory b. Every disk is automatically a PV.

One disk to one PV restriction. There are reasons it is suggested that you do so however. You do have to have partitions if you want to have multiple PVs from a disk. But then the question is why are you doing LVM instead of just using partitions? HP-UX: a. LVM is optional but is built in.

They introduced Intel Itanium with For the most part your solution is going to be cheapest using Linux. The main reason to use AIX or HP-UX would be for specific workloads that are optimized for them OR for fault tolerance as they aim at high end installations these days. Last edited by MensaWater; at PM. Hello There!!! Thank you very much for your prompt response. Could you please add some more points related to the same which will differentiate them from each other? Originally Posted by h.

Pretty much all the adapters and components that run in those servers are either made or rebadged by IBM. In the past IBM has almost given AIX away, making money from the hardware and services instead of the operating system software. Using a single hardware architecture removes a big headache for AIX developers. There is no struggling to write device drivers for thousands of obscure devices, for a start. By controlling the hardware platform IBM can offer high-end hardware features such as hot-swap adapters and logical partitioning, not to mention servers where the firmware equivalent of the BIOS can be accessed through a Web browser when the server is powered off.

There is a significant price premium for this hardware, but there are great benefits too. Many companies are happy to pay more, or sacrifice speed, to improve reliability, availability, and serviceability. If an hour of downtime costs your business tens of thousands of dollars, this is a big deal. Luckily, Linux is coming to have the best of both worlds. Linux has always been somewhat clumsy at device management.

Whether a particular piece of information about a device is available often seems a matter of luck. A variety of other commands with different syntaxes and outputs help to cobble together an overall picture of the hardware on a system.

AIX is a breath of fresh air in comparison. Devices can be queried easily through a few commands. The syntax for amending device settings is clear and consistent across all devices, and the amount of information available on each device is huge. If new devices are added to a running system, a single command configures them all and installs device drivers where needed. On an enterprise server with PCI adapters and a few hundred disks, however, it becomes a lot more important to have good accurate information about exactly what and where everything is and what it is all doing.

Think of it as YaST2 with fewer sexy graphics but more functionality. Contributing to the elimination of critical workload downtime is AIX 7. For industries reliant on high performance and dependability, such as financial institutions, governments, and health care providers, AIX is still a leader.