IBM has unveiled an open beta program for AIX 7, an open standards-based UNIX operating system, provides performance and energy management capabilities of the new POWER7 servers.
The company said that the AIX 7 provides full binary compatibility for programs created on earlier versions of AIX including AIX 6, AIX 5, and 32bit programs created on even earlier versions of AIX.
In addition, the AIX 7 can fully exploit the features of systems based on POWER7 processors, and it will also be supported on systems based on earlier generations of processors including POWER6, POWER5, and POWER4.
The AIX 7 introduces new technology which simplifies consolidation of older workloads onto new systems and Clients can back up an existing AIX 5.2 environment and restore it inside of a Workload Partition on AIX 7.
Further, AIX 7 and Power Systems hardware are designed to provide clients with performance, flexibility, security and availability than previous generations of AIX and POWER.
The features of AIX 7 include new support for very large workloads with up to 256 cores/1024 threads in a single AIX logical partition; built-in clustering to simplify configuration and management of multiple AIX systems for high availability; and simplified AIX configuration management for pools of AIX systems.
