[Info-vax] IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up

[Kenneth Fairfield]

On Saturday, October 8, 2011 10:59:11 AM UTC-7, MG wrote:
> On 8-10-2011 19:34, Paul Sture wrote:
> > I am not so sure about that.  IBM were doing mainframe OS virtualization
> > decades ago.
> 
> Isn't that mostly on similar mainframe?  (E.g. legacy OS/360, OS/370,
> OS/380, OS/MVS and so forth for OS/400, iSeries, i5, System i and
> the rest, with the 'pars').  At least, I haven't heard of IBM offering
> these platforms on, say, IBM "x" (x86/-64) or whatever systems.  Also
> the IBM "p" (PowerPC/POWER) systems are not capable of simply running
> "i" things, not without a complete firmware overhaul.

Well the p-Series run AIX, the i-Series run the mainframe OS's.  But the hardware is essentially the same, near as I can tell (point on firmware noted).

BTW, AIX is a really "unusual" unix, at least in my view. :-)  While you have the usual shells available, and can lay down most of the usual Gnu utilities, etc., configuring storage, adding users, and other sysadmin sort of things is done through IBM utilities (vgroups, vdisks, hdisks, and the like, an "lsxxxx" utility for every imaginable listing you'd want, "smitty" for most management tasks, "lpars" to partition the "frame" into individual systems, etc.).

   -Ken