Sometimes it is pertinent to take a mondo backup from a running physical system and do a restore to a virtual machine. The virtual machine could be vmware, virtualbox etc. The test unit in this case was an IBM x3650M4 physical server (Running Redhat 6.4 64-bit Enterprise Edition). The mondo software is available here. In … Read more
When upgrading a system (AIX 6.1 TL6 SP6) to TL8 SP2 using the AIX install media (an .iso mounted from the VIOS to a LPAR), I found that after a while the system would just sit and spin. It seemed to have an issue with fileset 449: DirectorCommonAgent Thus, you have two options. Option 1: … Read more
Using RBAC (Role Based Access Controls) within AIX (and forced in VIOS) I discovered it was a bit of a pain to NOT have the ability to do everything as the padmin user. Typically you can add yourself to have a role (or some roles) which you can swap into. However, this can be a … Read more