pSeries Hardware - Some Images

2GB RAM MEMORY used for 7028-6C1

Power Supply Unit used for pSeries servers

IBM 20/40G 4mm DDS4 Tape Drive used in pSeries servers.

IBM 3273 36.4GB 10k Ultra320 Disk 80-pin pSeries RS6000

IBM 2GB Fiber Channel HBA used in pSeries Machines

p690 a.k.a Regatta

p6H1. Power4 based servers

SCSI Cable

IBM 450MHz CPU for P610

p610. Power4 based servers.

IBM 5706 pSeries 2-port 10 or100 or 1000 Base-TX PCI-X

History of AIX

Versions :

AIX 5L 5.3, August 2004
NFS Version 4 support
Advanced Accounting
Virtual SCSI
Virtual Ethernet
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) support
Micro-Partitioning support
POWER5 support
JFS2 Quota support
JFS2 Filesystem shrink support


AIX 5L 5.2, October 2002
Minimum level required for POWER5 hardware
Support for MPIO Fibre Channel disks
iSCSI Initiator software
Dynamic LPAR support


AIX 5L 5.1, May 2001
Minimum level required for POWER4 hardware and the last release that supported Micro Channel architecture
Introduction of 64-bit kernel, installed but not activated by default
Introduction of JFS2
Static LPAR support
The L stands for Linux affinity
Trusted Computing Base (TCB)


AIX 4.3.3, September 1999
Added online backup function
Workload Management (WLM)


AIX 4.3.2, October 1998

AIX 4.3.1, April 1998

AIX 4.3, October 1997
Support for 64-bit architecture
Support for IPv6

AIX 4.2.1, April 1997
NFS Version 3 support


AIX 4.2, May 1996

AIX 4.1.5, August 1996

AIX 4.1.4, October 1995

AIX 4.1.3, July 1995
CDE 1.0 became the default GUI environment, replacing Motif X Window
Manager.

AIX 4.1.1, October 1994

AIX 4.1, August 1994

AIX v4, 1994

AIX v3.2 1992

AIX v3.1
Introduction of Journaled File System (JFS)

AIX v3, February 1990
Developer release licensed only to OSF; the LVM was incorporated into OSF/1.
SMIT was introduced.

AIX v2.0
last version was 2.2.1.

AIX v1, 1986
last version was 1.3

Supported architectures:

AIX v1 supported IBM PS/2 Micro Channel architecture PCs and IBM RT.
AIX v2 supported 6150-series IBM RT systems.
AIX v3 introduced support for IBM POWER architecture.
AIX v4 introduced support for PowerPC architecture and PCI bus.
AIX v5 introduced support for IA64 architecture (although AIX for Itanium
never went beyond beta). [1]
AIX v5.1 introduced Logical Partitioning on POWER4, was last version to
support Micro Channel architecture.
AIX v5.2 introduced support for JS20 PowerPC 970 based blade for IBM
BladeCenter.
AIX v5.3 introduced MicroPartitioning on POWER5.