Re: NIM Questions

Supposedly IBM is going to host a RED Book Symposium on NIM this year to produce a NEW AIX 5L NIM Red Book. The person who I spoke to early in 2006, had it on his radar, but the effort kept getting pushed back. Apparently IBM does not place the importance on NIM that some of us do.


Bergström Ole <Ole.Bergstrom@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi,

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


Regards,
Ole.


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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Lawrence
Sent: 8. helmikuuta 2007 22:19
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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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