IBM AIX Reviews & Product Details

Stability of the system, ease of management, not much updates, secured connectivity through SSH Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of helping resources and the poor community when you are looking for support or to resolve issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I worked on many UNIX-based operating systems but this IBM AIX is the most commonly used OS in my organization. I work to manage the bank data center. Our major applications like mobile banking and internet banking are hosted on the IBM AIX server with no or minimal service disruption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike in fact i must say thanks that the IBM team is continuously working to improve its software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like most that service disruption is minimal while hosting VMs on IBM AIX servers. Almost all banking and financial industries use IBM AIX servers to host their infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike as such. Regular updates are already coming, which enhance the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IBM AIX has many great features that make it the best choice for a larger enterprise. Features such as High Availability, High performance in heavy workloads, resources Scalability, Stable, better data security, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OS support could become expensive, OS cost is higher, Hardware cost is higher for this OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The commands are easy to remember and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not free for use, IBM charges for AIX Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's having lot of good features as mentioned below.

1) Robust set of security options and tunnel authentication.

2) It is a very stable server product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of now I don't have any issues with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have worked with every major (and many minor) UNIX/LINUX distributions over the last 25 years, and AIX is hands down the most stable and configurable one I have ever used. For example, we had 0 seconds of unplanned down time with our hospital system's Electronic Medical Record for the seven years that it ran on AIX. As with any UNIX/LINUX, if you're a skilled and creative administrator, if you can imagine something with regards to configuration, then you can probably make it happen. Finally, IBM support is excellent. You don't get flunkies when you call in a support ticket. You get a professional, seasoned expert who knows what they are doing, often with a direct transfer from the initial call-taker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The IBM sales team has never been great for us, as it seems bloated and bureaucratic, and they seem to take the attitude that they don't really care if they have our business (maybe IBM is too big?). Also, licensing of AIX is very expensive compared to other operating systems we use, and you don't get any slack regarding licensing (if your contract has expired, you don't get any grace for support...period), so we don't have it deployed for every small use case (firewalls, DNS, etc) where UNIX/LINUX is a good choice; in those cases we use Linux. But the stability of AIX and their Power servers makes up for the licensing cost and subpar sales team. Also, the initial opening of a ticket seems to take longer than it should, but the support you get is great. Finally, IBM's knowledgebase search for AIX is pretty much useless for me (no relevant results ever -- Google works better). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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

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

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

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 an OS issue in our application. Maybe the admin teams were that great but we have recently been trying to move 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 flavors of *nix OS'. Once you get a hang of the multitude of commands, it's a breeze running this OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.