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VM Recovery Manager

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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...
    4 days 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...
    18 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

    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...
    about 1 month ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Change references of "discovery" (no such process) to "discover"

    VMRDR has a "discover" and "verify" process but the word "discovery" is used too often, causes confusion, and should be changed to "discover". Here are two examples: 1. This vm's STATE should be "DISCOVER_FAILED" instead of "DISCOVERY_FAILED". The...
    6 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    New -l (list) flag for 'vmruiinst.ksh' to show URL of all RPMs to download

    Currently the GUI vmruiinst.ksh script provides -d & -p flags to download required RPMs from the Internet (see Case TS019597256).Bust many Clients do not have an AIX LPAR with Internet connection therefore it's a problem for them to download a...
    7 months 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...
    9 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 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.
    10 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Have reports generate in the GUI, regardless if action was performed in the GUI or through Command line

    This would allow us to use the command line to perform our task quicker while still having the benefit of a generated report for auditors.
    11 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

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