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PowerHA

Send IAS03E2 message to QSYSOPR (FSFC)

If error IAS03E2 "Unexpected error occurred on SVC or HMC interface" happens while a CSEDTA is running, FSFC is logging a command error but not declaring the process as failed. If this happens shortly after STRFSFLASH command is given, this will r...
4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Add PowerHA support for volume group snapshots as alternative to flash copy

Currently IBMi PowerHA supports remote mirror and policy based replication. PowerHA also support flash copy to copy an iASP from a source cluster node to a target cluster node. We use this technology to refresh our dev and acceptance systems with ...
12 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

enhancement with PowerHA Site-failure scenario with Hyperswap design

It is about IBM i site failure protection with PowerHA + HyperSwap. When the source server and storage both power down, suppose the target server and storage (DS8K) will takeover the iASP asap. But there is a scenario the target LPAR will be hang ...
6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
12 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

RPO History and Thresholds

With asynchronous replication sessions in PowerHA, recovery point objective (RPO) type information is currently displayed in fields like data exposure and freeze time. However, this information is not retained for historical purposes and the regul...
12 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

long name CADMRE

The administrative domain allows you to replicate various types of objects and configurations across the different members of the cluster. Among these types, you can also specify environment variables, which often have names longer than 10 charact...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Notifications and Alerting

Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

RBAC for PowerHA and AdminDomain

It would be helpful to provide product level security where not everyone can access administrative tasks. View access vs. Admin access.
7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted

Alert on failed deletion in DOMADM

If I configure policies on a cluster with an administrative domain that also apply to *USRPRF objects, I can create an account on one system and it will appear on the others. However, if the account contains objects, for example, and they are not ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA Submitted