IBM AIX

AIX commands you should not leave home without
IBM Redbooks - you know, the red books.
My AIX Cheatsheet | (Pardon my french)

mysql Connector and the xlC_r C compiler

when building 6.0.2, I found that I had to add -lm and -ldecNumber libraries to LDFLAGS make it work. Oh, oracle is dropping support for mysql on AIX...

HMC || Hardware Management Console || the linux busybox machine IBM wants you to buy /w expensive servers

IBM Hardware Management Console - Wikipedia
unixwerk: HMC Commandline Interface - yup there is a gui, but cmdline is good too.

LPAR install on AIX without HMC

1.) null modem serial cable
install VIO via serial cable, get vioserver on network. user:padmin pass:padmin (IVM:integrated virtual management)

Buy an HMC, really though...

NIM master || NIM client || Network Installation Management server

quickly implement on-demand capabilities for installation and backup procedures.
IBM NIM Setup Guide - United States
AIX for System Administrators: Notes on NIM

WPAR || Workload Partitioning

Workload Partitioning (WPAR) in AIX 6.1
How to create a WPAR step-by-step - AIX & System P Community