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Linusolaradm1
Some simple questions about Intellistation 285 and powervm.
I want to learn AIX,so i will buy an used I285 from ebay.
1)Will support aix 7.1?
Yes, probably. It is a POWER5+ system and should run AIX 7.1, but if it is able to do so in a
supported manner is everybodies guess. Even if the hardware supports the OS it might need microcode (=firmware revisions) to do so and if this is available for such an old system for any OS revision is everybodies guess.
Having said this: i doubt that you will need 7.1 to learn AIX. Perhaps AIX 6.1 is quite sufficient for your purpose, the difference between 7.1 and 6.1 is - from the newcomers view - minimal. You will, for instance, not be able to do everything with WLPARs (workload partitions) in 6.1 which is possible in 7.1, but in practice WLPARs are not used anyway, because chroot-environments (even beautified ones, this, in fact, are WLPARs) are not really popular in the daily operations among admins.
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Linusolaradm1
2)Is powervm avaliable?Where to download or buy it?
PowerVM is a licensed product. You need it if you want to do micropartitioning (simply speaking, allocate fractions of a CPU to a LPAR). The license is valid for a certain piece of hardware, therefore, if you need to license it or not will depend on the piece of hardware you buy. If you have to buy and deploy it the procedure is: you will get a download link, download the license file and apply it on (the firmware of) your system. Alas, i doubt that you will be able to buy a license for such a system, because it was withdrawn from the market in 2009.
I hope this helps.
bakunin