Re: NIM Questions

Hi,

Aix Installation Guide & Reference SC23-4887-00 has a whole part (Part 3)
about NIM.


Regards,
Ole.


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Lawrence
Sent: 8. helmikuuta 2007 22:19
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: NIM Questions

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Grant Harders wrote:

I am planning to setup a NIM environment to service our AIX machines (30+).
I would like to use it for installs, fixes, upgrades, mksysb backups,
etc. I have some idea about how to proceed, having checked the
archives and various IBM documents, but still have a few questions.

First, for my NIM Master machine I would like to use a p615 or p520
with 2 cpus, 2GB memory, 72GB (mirrored) disk space for rootvg and
about 300GB
(mirrored) disk space for a volume group to hold everything else
(lppsource, mksysbs, etc.). Do you think that this will provide a
sufficient amount of resources for a NIM master?

That's probably more machine than you need. I've found that .1 processor
(uncapped) and 256M of memory is enough if you aren't doing much in parallel.

Second, I have been thinking about taking the 2day NIM course.
However, I have a lot of experience on pSeries machines, lpars, hmcs,
etc. and would rather spend education money on something else. Is NIM
complicated enough that I should take the course?

The lack of a _current_ Redbook is one of my major complaints. A lot of features have been added into NIM since AIX 4.3.

I've set up a couple of NIM servers in the last year, so feel free to ask any questions.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.

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