AIX - IBM's UNIX Operating System for the Power Platform.
IBM AIX has become the leading UNIX operating system in the market.
AIX has a very rich command set. It seems like there is an ls command for everything and a mk and ch command to go along with it. For instance you have a command a mkvg command to make a volume group, a chvg command to change a volume group, and a lsvg command to list a volume group. If you don’t like to type long commands or you prefer a GUI interface then you can use SMIT (AIXs built in menu system) to perform all the same tasks you do at the command line. If you have an X display then SMIT presents itself as a GUI otherwise it is presented as (smitty) a text based menu. More on smitty later.
The built in logical volume manager (LVM) has un-questionably been one of the features which has made AIX popular. LVM allows you to organize and manage physical storage as logical entities. This allows physical disks to be added to Volume Groups (VG) and diced into Physical Partitions (PP) which can be combined to create Logical Volumes
AIX has a very rich command set. It seems like there is an ls command for everything and a mk and ch command to go along with it. For instance you have a command a mkvg command to make a volume group, a chvg command to change a volume group, and a lsvg command to list a volume group. If you don’t like to type long commands or you prefer a GUI interface then you can use SMIT (AIXs built in menu system) to perform all the same tasks you do at the command line. If you have an X display then SMIT presents itself as a GUI otherwise it is presented as (smitty) a text based menu. More on smitty later.
The built in logical volume manager (LVM) has un-questionably been one of the features which has made AIX popular. LVM allows you to organize and manage physical storage as logical entities. This allows physical disks to be added to Volume Groups (VG) and diced into Physical Partitions (PP) which can be combined to create Logical Volumes
