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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...
    1 day ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    ICC product should provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has failed

    Hello, As per case TS019399743: "...I was working with development teams and sincerely apologize for delayed response. BRMS development team has checked and confirmed that ICC product do not provide information to BRMS indicating tape transfer has...
    22 days ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

    Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

    For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 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

    5733-ICC API to delete a no longer needed directory

    There are cloud APIs to copy to, copy from cloud as well as one to remove a file from cloud. However if you file has a directory structure there is no way to remove any of those directories.
    4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 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

    Allow 5733-ICC APIs to be thread safe.

    Any one who wanted to use the Cloud APIs in a threaded environment.
    4 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Submitted

    Enabling Port VLAN ID Update through VMRM DR using vNIC over SRIOV

    Enable the automatic update of Port VLAN IDs during VMRM DR failover through HMC to ensure network access for virtual machines.
    about 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Support of modern remote copy function - Policy-based Replication (PBR)

    FlashSystem reference architectures are now based on Policy-based Replication (PBR). Policy-based Replication replaces Global Mirror, using volume group and no longer consistency group (replication) commands. This new Storage function should be su...
    over 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Add HMC authentication testing and displaying HMC authentication error output

    When the HMC password is changed manually through the HMC but KSYS's stored HMC password is not updated, the auto-nightly discover/verify processes continue to succeed until the HMCs are rebooted, which disconnects KSYS's authenticated session. (1...
    7 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

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