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PowerHA for AIX

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Enhance PHA Startup Policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy"

Today the PowerHA Starup policy "Online Using Node Distribution Policy" is hard coded to use the CPU load only.There should be the same list of options as for Resource Group Fallover policy "Fallover Using Dynamic Node Priority".
over 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

PowerHA DB2 HADR SmartAssist

Create a PowerHA SmartAssist for DB2 HADR.This would be useful for AIX and Linux.A SmartAssist for DB2 does exist but not if HADR will be used.
over 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

Container support for PowerHA GUI

It will be useful to have the ability to get a pre-installed and setup WPAR or Ansible based Container Image for the GUI server of PowerHA
over 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

Need filesystem hang and mount status monitoring in PowerHA

We are using a lot of PowerHA product on many AIX servers. Also there are many kinds of other company's High Availability products such as Service Guard of HPE, Redhat cluster, MSCS of MS etc. In some other HA solutions, there is a function which ...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

Add support for HP 3PAR based replication

Like some other storage products HP 3PAR does offer a storage based data replication to a remote site.But the support for HP 3PAR is currently missing.
almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

Add db2 autoactive to Smart Assist scripts

To modify the DB2 start script supplied under the Smart Asssist automation process. We require an explicit activation of the DB2 data from the start script:/usr/es/sbin/cluster/sa/db2/sbin/cl_db2start <instance>
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

Into some smitty meny, pressing Enter without making any change, the cluster doesn't advise that a sync is required

Pressing ENTER into the RG configuration menu without change any field, cluster modify anyway some info into the ACD, but it's doesn't inform the client that a synchronization is required. Client expected to receive the same information message th...
about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

POWERHA: RETRIES DO NOT STOP ON FAILED SRDF LINK

Requirement - To have retries stop when a certain failure was received from the HMC. When SRDF signals an unrecoverable error (implying manualintervention and restore of links is required), PowerHAdoes not stop processing, but attempts selectivefa...
over 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

PowerHA Gui remediation

we need support to remediate the following vulnerability report HA GUI clients SSL Certificate with Wrong Hostname RFE opened based on support recommendation , please see support update below Unfortunately, the approach of generating new set of se...
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

HA GUI SSL Self-Signed Certificate

PowerHA ships with the ability to create a unique, self-signed certificate for each customer. we need the procedure for allowing us to purchase our own signed certificate
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release