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The following sections discuss the support for the various levels of AIX operating system

support.

IBM periodically releases maintenance packages (service packs or technology levels) for the

AIX operating system. Information about these packages, downloading, and obtaining the

CD-ROM is on the Fix Central Web site:

http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

The Fix Central Web site also provides information about ho to obtain the fixes shipping on

CD-ROM.

The Service Update Management Assistant, which can help you to automate the task of

checking and downloading operating system downloads, is part of the base operating system.

For more information about the suma command, go to following Web site:

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/genunix/suma.html

IBM AIX Version 5.3

IBM AIX Version 5.3 is supported on all models of POWER7 processor-based servers

delivered in 2010.

The minimum level of AIX Version 5.3 to support the Power 710, 720, 730, and 740 is:

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level and Service Pack 5, or later

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-11 Technology Level and Service Pack 5, or later

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-12 Technology Level and Service Pack 2, or later

The minimum level of AIX Version 5.3 to support the Power 750, 755, 770, and 780 is:

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-09 Technology Level and Service Pack 7, or later

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level and Service Pack 4, or later

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-11 Technology Level and Service Pack 2, or later

The minimum level of AIX Version 5.3 to support the Power 795 is:

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-10 Technology Level and Service Pack 5, or later

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-11 Technology Level and Service Pack 5, or later

AIX 5.3 with the 5300-12 Technology Level and Service Pack 1, or later

A partition using AIX Version 5.3 will be executing in POWER6 or POWER6+ compatibility

mode. This means that although the POWER7 processor has the ability to run four hardware

threads per core simultaneously, using AIX 5.3 limits the number of hardware threads per

core to two.

A partition with AIX 5.3 is limited to a maximum of 64 cores.

 

IBM AIX Version 6.1

If you install AIX 6.1 on a POWER7 processor-based server, the minimum level requirements

depend on the target server model:

The minimum level of AIX Version 6.1 to support the Power 710, 720, 730, 740, and 795 is:

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-04 Technology Level and Service Pack 7, or later

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-05 Technology Level and Service Pack 3, or later

AIX 6,1 with the 6100-06 Technology Level

The minimum level of AIX Version 6.1 to support the Power 750 and 755 is:

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-02 Technology Level and Service Pack 8, or later

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-03 Technology Level and Service Pack 5, or later

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-04 Technology Level and Service Pack 2, or later

The minimum level of AIX Version 6.1 to support the Power 770 and 780 is:

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-02 Technology Level and Service Pack 8, or later

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-03 Technology Level and Service Pack 5, or later

AIX 6.1 with the 6100-04 Technology Level and Service Pack 3, or later

A partition using AIX 6.1 with TL6 can run in POWER6, POWER6+ or POWER7 mode. It is

best to run the partition in POWER7 mode to allow exploitation of new hardware capabilities

such as SMT4 and Active Memory Expansion (AME).

A partition with AIX 6.1 is limited to a maximum of 64 cores.

 

IBM AIX Version 7.1

AIX Version 7.1 comes will full support for the Power 710, 720, 730, 740, 750, 755, 770, 780,

and 795, exploiting all the hardware features from the POWER7 processor, as well as from

the server architecture. A partition with AIX 7.1 can run in POWER6, POWER6+ or POWER7

mode, to enable Live Partition Mobility to different POWER6 and POWER7 systems. When

running in POWER7 mode, a partition with AIX 7.1 can scale up to 256 cores and 8 TB of

RAM.

 

Note: Partition sizes greater than 128-cores (up to 256-cores) will require a software key to

enable. Purchase will require lab services pre-analysis as a prerequisite to shipment. The

software key requires feature #1256 to be installed.