Catching up on IBM Redbooks

Trying to find a reference book on AIX 6, I looked at the latest list of Redbooks for Power Systems, these are the ones listed in the RSS feed since the start of October 2007.

IBM AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide – 1 week agoDraft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 – AIX – The industrial strength UNIX operating system – An experts guide to the new release – AIX Version 6.1 enhancements explained This IBM® Redboo…

Programming the Cell Broadband Engine: Examples and Best Practices – 2 weeks agoDraft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 – Practical code development and porting examples – Making the most of SDK 3.0 debug and performance tools – Understanding and applying programming mod…

Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p Introduction and Configuration – 3 weeks agoDraft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 – Basic and advanced configuration of the Virtual I/O Server and its clients – Updated to include new POWER6 technologies – System administration topic…

Results of Quantifying the Benefit of EWLM in a System p Environment – 3 weeks agoDraft Redpaper, last updated: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 The goal of this paper is to quantify the value of EWLM partition workload group management in a System p environment.

Infrastructure solutions: Design, Manage, and Optimize a 60 TB NetWeaver Business Intelligence data warehouse – 1 month agoDraft Redbook, last updated: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 – Scalability study of SAP NetWeaver BI on IBM System p5 and DB2 9 – Architectural descriptions, test results, lessons learned…

Introduction to Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1 – 1 month agoRedbook, published: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 – Overview, applicability, and planning information for system architects – Understanding and applying WPAR technology for efficient IBM System p resource utilization...

IBM System p Live Partition Mobility – 2 months agoRedbook, published: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 – Explore the POWER6 processor-based live partition mobility – Perform examples of how to move running partitions between servers – Learn how to automate partiti…

A Systems Management Guide to Performance Management for System i and System p servers – 2 months agoRedbook, published: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 – Interactively and proactively manage your system – Oversee your server for best performance and growth – Easily evaluate your growth alternatives IBM Perfor…

Hardware Management Console V7 Handbook – 2 months agoRedbook, published: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 – Discusses both POWER6 and POWER5 technologies – Documents the improved Remote Client Access – Describes the improved user interface The IBM Hardware Manageme…

Integrated Virtual Ethernet Adapter Technical Overview and Introduction – 3 months ago Redpaper, published: Wed, 10 Oct 2007

– Unique and flexible up to 10 Gbps Ethernet industry standard virtualizable network solution
– Hardware accelerated for improved throughput
– Configurable connections between LPARs and the physical network without the Virtual I/O Server

The introduction of the POWER6 processor-based servers brought to market several advances in server design, performance, and function.