Re: aix comparison
From: shea martin (smartin_at_arcis.com)
Date: 07/25/04
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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:58:28 GMT
Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
> Shivakanth Mundru wrote:
>
>
>>To be frank I have read (atleast browsed) that Reference guide and I
>>couldnt understand how AIX is better than Solaris (as per an AIX
>>friend/sysadmin). Its more about how a Solaris admin can co relate
>>commands in AIX world. Any way AIX has got SMIT,WSM Which I didnt
>
> like,
>
>>this may be because I am very much used to Solaris CLI.
>
>
> I think that many people don't understand that anything that can be
> done with SMIT can also be done from the command-line. If one choses,
> an AIX administrator never has to use SMIT even once.
>
> SMIT is useful (in my opinion) in three ways:
>
> * when one has to perform some action that is not very common, it is
> easier to run SMIT then it is to pour through a manpage or a printed
> manual to find the right flags for doing what you want.
>
> * when you are working on something that you're not yet familar with,
> pressing F6 (or Esc-6) will show you the exact commandline and
> arguments that SMIT will execute.
>
> * Every action performed by SMIT is logged to two files; one log
> (/smit.log) shows all of the screens and choices made, while the other
> log (/smit.script) contains a running listing of all of the commands
> that have been executed via SMIT. This is no way a security measure,
> but it can be very useful to read through and see when something might
> have changed.
>
>
>>I doubt whether Sun's plan to port Solaris on AIX will turn out true.
>
>
>>(may be it will but whats the advantage for sun other than adding one
>
>
>>more architecture on which solaris runs) I agree with Shea on that.
>
>
> I think that is highly unlikely; Solaris already runs on two
> architectures, and what money would be in it for Sun?
>
>>It would be great if any one who has good understanding of both AIX
>
> and
>
>>Solaris can post where one fares better than other. I would be
>
> curious
>
>>to know as well.
>
>
>
> I think I have a pretty good understanding. Personally, I think that
> AIX's biggest benefit revolve around its logical volume manager, which
> is (and has been) fully integrated into the OS, and its DLPAR
> capabilities on the newer hardware (sort of like the Sun Fire domain
> capability, but it actually works well, and is fairly easy to use
> dynamically.
>
> As far as the Solaris advantages, I think Solaris is closer to the
> definition of a "pure" Unix (whatever that means); Unix folks get weird
> when they hear about the ODM, or SMIT, of the LVM and so on. I've been
> told that it is easier to port software to Solaris then it is to port
> to AIX, due to some library linking differences.
>
> Both IBM and Sun sell big boxes, but IBM doesn't sell as many smaller
> boxes, so I think its easier to find people that have Solaris
> experience, because it is easier to be exposed to it. We have fairly
> large RS/6000 / pSeries systems, and we have fairly large Sun systems.
> In my experience, the Suns seem to panic and reboot more often then the
> IBMs, but when it happens, they almost always come right back up. The
> AIX boxes stay up longer, and rarely go down because of a kernel issue,
> but when they do, it seems like it takes all night and a couple of CEs
> to fix the problem.
>
> Hope that helps; understand that we have 10 Solaris boxes for every one
> AIX system. I'm also the lead administrator for the AIX systems, but
> am one of a small group of admins for the Sun stuff, so my opinions are
> skewed by this, probably.
>
> -s-
>
Thanks, very informative.
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