How do I display devices or hardware on aix?

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Use lsdev command to list hardware on AIX. It list information from the Device Configuration Database, device are listed by the type of class they are in.

To list configured devices on the system. Note they still may not be available to use

# lsdev -C
sio0 Available 00-00 Standard I/O Planar
fda0 Available 00-00-0D Standard I/O Diskette Adapter
sa0 Available 00-00-S1 Standard I/O Serial Port 1
sa1 Available 00-00-S2 I/O Serial Port 2
tty0 Defined Asynchronous Terminal
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To list disks

# lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk0 Available 40-60-00-4,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
hdisk1 Available 40-60-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
vpath0 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver
vpath1 Available Data Path Optimizer Pseudo Device Driver
hdisk2 Available 11-08-01 IBM FC 2105800
hdisk3 Available 11-08-01 IBM FC 2105800
hdisk4 Available 11-08-01 IBM FC 2105800
hdisk5 Available 11-08-01 IBM FC 2105800
hdisk6 Available 14-08-01 IBM FC 2105800
hdisk7 Available 14-08-01 IBM FC 2105800

To list CPUs/processors

# lsdev -C |grep Processor
proc0 Available 00-00 Processor
proc1 Available 00-01 Processor
proc2 Available 00-02 Processor
proc3 Available 00-03 Processor
proc4 Available 00-04 Processor
proc5 Available 00-05 Processor
proc6 Available 00-06 Processor
proc7 Available 00-07 Processor

To list adapters

# lsdev -Cc adapter
sa0 Available 01-S1 Standard I/O Serial Port
sa1 Available 01-S2 Standard I/O Serial Port
sa2 Available 01-S3 Standard I/O Serial Port
siokma0 Available 01-K1 Keyboard/Mouse Adapter
fda0 Available 01-D1 Standard I/O Diskette Adapter
scsi0 Available 10-60 Wide SCSI I/O Controller
mga0 Available 20-58 GXT120P Graphics Adapter
scsi1 Available 20-60 Wide/Fast-20 SCSI I/O Controller
scsi2 Available 30-58 Wide SCSI I/O Controller
sioka0 Available 01-K1-00 Keyboard Adapter
ppa0 Available 01-R1 Standard I/O Parallel Port Adapter
tok0 Available 10-68 IBM PCI Tokenring Adapter (14101800)
ssa0 Available 10-70 IBM SSA Enhanced RAID Adapter (14104500)
ent0 Available 10-78 IBM 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet PCI Adapter
ent1 Available 10-80 IBM PCI Ethernet Adapter (22100020)
scraid0 Available 30-60 IBM PCI SCSI RAID Adapter
sioma0 Available 01-K1-01 Mouse Adapter