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Support HMC addition to VMRDR when HMC password contains special characters

Update KSYS to support adding HMCs with complex "hscroot" passwords. If the "hscroot" password on the HMC has a complex password containing special characters (such as !, @, #, $), adding the HMC will initially say it worked but utlimately ends wi...
10 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Urgent support for Power HA System Mirror for IBM i of the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize function Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function)

With the last announcements of IBM storage, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software is enhanced with the new functions based on Policy-based HA (the new Hyperswap function). The PowerHA system mirror for i, today doesn't support this new function and...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / PowerHA 7 Future consideration

Retain PowerHA Geographic Mirror cluster information when doing image capture and volume clone

Hello, For some time now (I’m unable to pinpoint exactly when), PowerHA Geographic Mirror no longer retains cluster information when performing an image capture or a volume clone operation. This functionality used to work correctly — for example, ...
16 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 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 ...
2 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

Allow VM Recovery Manager HA to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

VM Recovery Manager HA is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and server failure...
over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

VMRM DR - Fail "verify" when rehearsal LPAR sees extra disks causing move failure

Please add checking for the correct number of disks to be part of either the "discover" or "verify" process (or both) since having the correct number of disks is a required part of the "move" process. When the incorrect number of flashcopy disks a...
23 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Add documentation for changing the "drvlanmap" and "drvswitchmap"

Please update the VM Recovery Manager documentation to include how to change the "drvlanmap" and "drvswitchmap" parameters from the command line. The actual commands are misleading because they specify changing the "vlanmap" and "vswitchmap", but,...
about 1 month ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

Purestorage support in VMRM DR

Need PureStorage support to implement VM Recovery Manager in our environment.
about 1 month ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

vdisk_protection_enabled in IBM i PowerHA environments

This is the corresponding RFE to RFE number 141546 but for IBM i side.Spectrum Virtualize (be it flashsystems or SVC) introduced feature to restrict LUNS from being unmapped or deleted from storage when there was I/O in last XX minutes.This featur...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 2 Future consideration

Notifications and Alerting

Ideally, we would like to see a build in Monitoring and alerting capabilities within PowerHA and AdminDOmain.
3 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted