IBM Power Systems Blog

Here are some tuning options you should consider implementing on your NIM Server.  Generally, most NIM servers are probably fairly small with may be one or two vCPUs and perhaps 8GB of RAM.  Make to most of the resources you have. more »

How I tuned my NIM server part 1. This is the first part detailing tuning changes made to an AIX 7.1 (now 7.2) NIM Server. more »

AIX has a number of IO buffers that it uses for different types of IO. There are buffers for paging devices, JFS and JFS2 filesystems, Disk IO and Client IO. more »