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Solaris to AIX .. how difficult ?
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I've been in the same boat. It's easier than you think.
Good and bad news for you. First, AIX uses a text and/or GUI tool called "smit". With this, you can add printers, configure devices, make kernel changes, backup the system, and many more functions. This means that you'll be able to hit the ground running when you switch over.
I still don't trust menus (what's wrong with me?), so I like to use the command line. Lucky for us, you can set up your task in smit and then hit the F9 key. This will show you the command that smit will be automating for you. It's useful when figuring out how AIX gets things done.
As you probably already know, all the standard UNIX commands will work, so if you're good at scripting, you won't have any issues. AIX does have some different commands to manage devices, users, groups, network settings, etc, but once you figure them out, it's fairly straight forward.
Great news: AIX logical volume manager is much better than anything (excluding veritas) that Sun has. (smit lvm) If you have played with veritas on Solaris, then you'll already have a good idea of how AIX lvm works. Regardless, it's not rocket science.
Solaris has packages, AIX has filesets and RPMs.
Sun's big website for opensource: IBM's:
As you know, Sun has been making quite some strides with patching in the last couple of years. So has IBM with their SUMA functionality (
I could go on and on. I'm sure other people will chime in this topic also, but I think you'll hear that you won't have many problems. It'll take some work, but you'll manage. Feel free to post your questions here!
Good and bad news for you. First, AIX uses a text and/or GUI tool called "smit". With this, you can add printers, configure devices, make kernel changes, backup the system, and many more functions. This means that you'll be able to hit the ground running when you switch over.
I still don't trust menus (what's wrong with me?), so I like to use the command line. Lucky for us, you can set up your task in smit and then hit the F9 key. This will show you the command that smit will be automating for you. It's useful when figuring out how AIX gets things done.
As you probably already know, all the standard UNIX commands will work, so if you're good at scripting, you won't have any issues. AIX does have some different commands to manage devices, users, groups, network settings, etc, but once you figure them out, it's fairly straight forward.
Great news: AIX logical volume manager is much better than anything (excluding veritas) that Sun has. (smit lvm) If you have played with veritas on Solaris, then you'll already have a good idea of how AIX lvm works. Regardless, it's not rocket science.
Solaris has packages, AIX has filesets and RPMs.
Sun's big website for opensource: IBM's:
As you know, Sun has been making quite some strides with patching in the last couple of years. So has IBM with their SUMA functionality (
I could go on and on. I'm sure other people will chime in this topic also, but I think you'll hear that you won't have many problems. It'll take some work, but you'll manage. Feel free to post your questions here!
Guys you're in luck.. I remember IBM had release some of their redbooks in dealing with migrating from Solaris to AIX. Hope these help
Sun Solaris to IBM AIX 5L Migration: A Guide for System Administrators
Quick Reference: Solaris to AIX
AIX Reference for Sun Solaris Administrators
Sun Solaris to IBM AIX 5L Migration: A Guide for System Administrators
Quick Reference: Solaris to AIX
AIX Reference for Sun Solaris Administrators
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