AIX Version 7.1 -features & benifits

Feature	Benefits
Virtualization
AIX Workload Partitions	Reduced administration, improved system efficiency
AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7 (separate product)	Easy consolidation of older workloads on new systems
Live Application Mobility	Increased application availability, enhanced workload manageability and energy savings
AIX Live Partition Mobility	Increased application availability, enhanced workload manageability and energy savings1,2
Multiple Shared Processor Pools	Greater resource management flexibility and reduced application software expense1,2
Shared Dedicated Processors	Improved server utilization1,2
Security
Role Based Access Control	Improved security, decreased administration costs
Domain support for Role Based Access Control	Improved security. Enhanced support for multitenant environments
Encrypting Filesystem with hardware acceleration	Improved security
Trusted AIX	Highest level of security for critical government and business workloads
AIX Security Expert	Improved security, decreased administration costs by enabling federated management of security across multiple AIX systems
Secure by Default	Improved security on initial installations of AIX 7
Trusted Execution	Improved security
Filesystem Permissions Tool	Improved security
Near-continuous Availability
Cluster Aware AIX	Improved availability though improved failover. Increase administrator manageability for scale out workload
Firmware Assisted Dump	Improved reliability
Concurrent AIX Updates	Greater system availability, improved security by enabling critical security patches to be installed without causing an outage
Storage Keys	Improved AIX availability1 and improved application availability2
Dynamic Tracing	Easier resolution to application execution and performance problems
Enhanced First Failure Data Capture	Increased AIX reliability and quicker problem resolution
Nonintrusive Service Aids	Increased AIX reliability and quicker problem resolution
Functional Recovery Routines	Increased AIX and application reliability and availability
Manageability
1024 thread/256 core scalability	Capability to support for extremely large workloads
AIX Workload Partitions	Reduced administrative expense by reducing the number of AIX operating systems to maintain. Greater flexibility to deploy and manage workloads
Live Application Mobility	Improved flexibility to improve application availability and performance and to reduce energy costs
PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager	Reduced management costs by providing federated management of workload partitions across the enterprise
AIX Live Partition Mobility	Improved flexibility to improve application availability and performance and to reduce energy costs1,2
IBM System Director Console for AIX	Reduced administrative costs and improved administrative effectiveness by enabling web-based administration across multiple AIX instances
Automatic Variable Page Size	Improved performance with reduced administrative effort
Terabyte Segment Size	Improved performance
AIX Profile Manager	Simplifies providing consistent configuration of multiple AIX systems
IBM Systems Director agent included in base AIX installation	Enables AIX systems for immediate management by IBM Systems Director
AIX Event Infrastructure	Simple to use interface for system event monitoring
Supported versions of openssh and openssl included on base AIX installation media	Simplified installation of the commonly used open source tools

¹ Supported only on Power Systems servers with POWER6 or POWER7 processor technology
² Also supported by AIX 5.3