AIX 7 is coming!
IBM plans to deliver the next version of the AIX® operating system, AIX 7, and new releases of PowerVM™ and PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX. These new offerings are designed to help companies reduce cost, improve service and lower the risk of deploying and migrating applications to AIX on Power® Systems.
The new capabilities planned for AIX 7 are designed to expand the scalability, reliability and manageability of AIX and the applications running on AIX. Key features will provide greater vertical scalability of up to 1024 threads or 256 cores in a single partition, a clustering infrastructure designed to provide highly availability applications with PowerHA SystemMirror and to simplify management of scale-out workloads. Additional AIX 7 will include new management capabilities based on IBM Systems Director that are designed to simplify the management of AIX system configuration. Finally AIX 7 will support the ability to run AIX 5.2 inside of a Workload Partition to allow consolidation of old workloads on new systems.
AIX 7 is planned to be supported on IBM Power System servers based on POWER4™, POWER5™, POWER6™ and POWER7™ processors. AIX 7 is planned to include exploitation that takes full advantage of POWER7 processor-based servers.
AIX 7, like AIX 6, is planned to provide binary compatibility for application programs developed on previous versions of AIX as long as the programs comply with reasonable programming standards.
AIX 6 binary compliance statementAIX 7 continues the evolution of UNIX that began more than 25 years ago with the release of AIX V2.1, and builds on the earlier generations of AIX in a non-disruptive evolutionary approach.
IBM intends to provide early access to AIX 7 via an Open Beta program later this year.
AIX 7, with the planned new releases of PowerVM and PowerHA SystemMirror, is designed to deliver the intelligent, interconnected information technology infrastructure needed for a smarter planet.
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