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53 IBM AIX Reviews
4.4 out of 5
53 IBM AIX Reviews
4.4 out of 5

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Nilantha H.
NH
Consultant
Telecommunications
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"IBM AIX review"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

Stability and performance of the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Difficulty in upgrading and the cost.... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harshil S.
HS
IT Operations Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good to manage OS"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

Very flexible to use OS and easy to administrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Nothing as far as I know which I could not like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zubin D.
ZD
Associate Software Engineering Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"One of the oldest and is still at athe core of almost all our applications core servers."
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

It does its job relentlessly. Not too many bells and whistles, but it does its job well. In my association with these machines (>years) never once did i face a OS issues in our application. Maybe the admin teams were that great but we have recently been trying to movr to a cloud based infrastructure and have run into quite a few issues and downtimes. But then again I have primarily worked on AIX and RHEL and prefer these too over all the other flavours of *nix OS'. One you get a hang of the multitude of commands its a breeze running this OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Nothing much OS related. I personally love the seamless architecture but my problem is specifically with some.of the utilities options not having a way to bring things back out of the box like for example crontab -r Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
AB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"It's vey stable and well infrastructure compatible system"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

AIX Live Update: OS fixes without reboot downtime

Dynamic System Optimizer (DSO): Tune software in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

All good ,should capture more market with cloud integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods
AC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best UNIX OS for the Enterprise"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

Great reliability, focus on uptime.

great filesystem, volume management and SAN compatibility

Binary compatibility for older executables

Great support from IBM, compared to the other prominent UNIX OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

It's an older operating system and it adheres to very old standards for compatibility.

Lack of up to date packages for open source and other apps

Interesting quirks when compared to Linux and Solaris

Security issues with default configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohan Hundre S.
MS
Cloud Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Free To Use : IBM AIX"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

The best part of It's Free to use from IBM. It is very easy to handle and provide better Security.

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What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

As per my use i don't no any dislike for me but, we are needed to provide update as soon as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration
AG
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AIX "
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

AIX is a great, secure Unix OS. With smitty it is easy to use even for novices. The IBM Power CPU is a great processor but I wish AIX could run on Intel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

IBM Sales staff is nearly non-existent. They seem to reorganize every 6 months and I can't remember the last time I saw or even got an email from a sales rep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Solid reliable operating system"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

Great for uptime and reliability. The ability to shrink filesystem size live without issue makes it a better LVM than Linux in my opinion. IBM's support is pretty good. The granularity of control of resources with IBM's virtualization is much better than other virtualization options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Upfront cost is a higher which means most organizations don't pay for enough hardware to be n+1 It's more of a niche operating system which means most software companies don't support it well or port their application to it with little support or missing features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fernando V.
FV
LAN Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AIX still going strong"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

Stability of the OS, improvements to features and flexibility to run db intensive, app friendly for our organization. Similar tasks can be scripted and scheduled based on the parameters dictated by the customer. Setting up the OS is straight forward and flexible. We provision systems based on the customer requirements and Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Hardware lock in by vendor so I only have one option when making decisions to purchase. Upgrading is limited to new version of the specific system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher T.
CT
Lead of cloud engineering
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AIX Review for running Oracle Products"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

Well, its an unix like Operating System, nothing new to someone like me, I am. an oracle dba a Middleware admin and I have worked with linux redhat, HPUX and Oracle linux. The only advantage I have detected so far is the nmon utility, its great for monitoring memory, cpu usage among other important metrics. The lpar reports on cpu and memory are very good, also the filesystem cache feature is great, it puts the most user files on memory cache, using iddle memory for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

I guess it offers the same as it competitors, power 8 systems run ok, its performance is great. Actually I guess I have zero complaints about rhis product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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