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    VMRDR needs to handle SSH login security banners displayed by a storage_agent

    When running a discover on a workgroup, if the remote storage_agent (like a FS9200) has a security login banner enabled, VMRDR is reading that banner as actual input to be parsed instead of ignoring it and only reading the true data. When connecti...
    3 days ago in VM Recovery Manager 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 ...
    19 days ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 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

    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

    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.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Better Visibility/Logging

    It would be a great help to provide logs to allow end users the ability to triage issues.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 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.
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Allow unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks associated with a virtual machine at a secondary (disaster recovery) site to be omitted during the discover/verify process, enabling disaster recovery operations.

    Allowing unmanaged or excluded non-replicated disks for a DB2 virtual machine using a DB2 tie-breaker disk at a disaster recovery (DR) site will enable us to fully automate the failover from the primary to the secondary site.
    8 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 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: ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

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