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VM Recovery Manager

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Update "verify" error message - Disk does not attached to FC Group

When a verify is run too soon after a discovery is run, the error "Disk does not attached to FC Group" is shown. Besides the grammatical correction needed, VMRMDR needs to have its error logic updated to reflect what is truly happening - VMRM call...
almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Delivered

Display resource requirements/availability in the GUI

Local resources (requirements) should not exceed the remote resources (availability). As new VMs are added to local servers, sometimes the remote resources available can be exceeded. This would prevent a successful Move or Rehearsal. There is no "...
almost 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 3 Delivered

VM Recovey Manager DR Release 1.5

We have discovered 3 problems up to now: 1. The DR site must have at least one session for global mirror (lssession output check)2. There can not be common LUN IDs between the source and destination LUNs3. The flashcopies for global mirror can not...
over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Preserve custom SSL Certs for VMRM GUI

When upgrading from VMRM DR from 1.4 to 1.5 it destroyed the SSL certificates that we had installed. smitty install was run and the SSL cert disappeared
almost 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Delivered

Make the modify DrTargetHost persistent for VM's that are already on the desired target host

In a cluster configuration that uses mxn_pairing you have an option to change the target host manually after it has been automatically set. We use that functionality as we requirements for certain VM's to be on specific hosts. For licensing purpos...
almost 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Delivered

ksysmgr restore snapshot for powerha config

Currently, the ksysmgr restore snapshot utility is not supported for ksysmgr in a clustered environment. This needs to be extended to a clustered environment as it is a commonly used function for quick restoration of a setup.
almost 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Add support for SAP HANA Multi Tier environments

SAP added the Multi Tier System Replication function a while ago. Means a customer can now have a local and a remote copy of the HANA database.VMR should support this architecture.
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Remove 'ping' as product requirement (be able to bypass 'ping' results)

Currently, when adding HMCs to VMR and when performing discovery/verification of storage agent, VMR performs a 'ping' to determine if the HMC or storage agent is up/operational. If the 'ping' fails, VMR does not proceed to configuring HMC or fails...
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

IBM VM Recovery Manager needs to accept special characters in HMC passwords

Brian:There might be some low hanging fruit for this issue.Does the HMC password you are trying to use contain any special characters?There is an APAR that addresses that issue but the fix is not yet available.The work-around is to change the HMC ...
over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 3 Delivered

Limit KSYS to discover disks attached to KSYS managed LPARs & using local cache when nothing changed since last discovery

Name of the software vendor: IBM is the product vendor but the product needs to discover and use EMC storage array disks using Storage Enabler softwareApplication name: VMRM-DR KSYSData store(s) for the application e.g. DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, Open Sou...
almost 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

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