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    Enable fc_mappings feature support in VMRM to be able to manage Migration between physical servers in Hostgroup which have multiple paths to disk

    Everybody deploying VMRM can benefit from it. In fact this is a product limitation for VMRM as the LPM SRR feature directly launched from HMC works properly while VMRM fails to manage this case. This prevents VMRM form managing properly the autom...
    over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 4 Planned for future release

    Support for multiple VIOS pairs in 1KSYS of VM Recovery Manager HA

    Currently VM Recovery Manager HA supports only one VIOS pair per KSYS.In an environment where multiple VIOS pairs are exist on a single node, it is necessary to configure a separate KSYS for each VIOS pair.Therefore, please improve the function so...
    almost 6 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Future consideration

    Add storage provider

    I have customer interresting by VM recovery manager but it storage substysem is not supported. Actually he use a Huawei storage subsystem
    over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Create and update a list with all software (vendors) and applications available on ppc64le.

    Support for an easy platform selection for appplications, present ppc64le as available. Today its more "going" x86 only since "people in general" either dont know of Power Systems or dont bother to check ppc64le alternative, therefor miss out on p...
    over 3 years ago in Linux for Power / RHEL 8 (5639-RH8) 1 Future consideration

    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...
    5 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Move the VLAN management from the host_group to the workgroup for more granular management. Away to have a backup of th

    We have multiple VLANs in our PROD site, but a single VLAN in DR if the VLAN management was moved to the workgroup level it would be easier to manage the VLANs by creating a workgroup for each VLAN in PROD and mapping the VLAN for the workgroup to...
    almost 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

    The ksysrppmgr command should be able to adjust the available resources on the managed hosts using the current HMC (V8R8.5.0 and later) POWER® Enterprise Pool capability.

    The command currently can only adjust the available memory and processors on a managed system by referencing the HMC and the system it manages. This presents a challenge for adjusting the available resources on the remote managed systems when the ...
    over 2 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future consideration

    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...
    6 months ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Submitted

    Handle VMs removed from HMC but not VMRDR

    VMs removed from the HMC need to be removed automatically from KSYS or a warning displayed about the "orphaned" VM during the discover process.
    about 1 year ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Submitted

    shared dual-cec configuration

    Let's take this scenario: we have two datacenters, each one has the same number of POWER servers managed by VMRM. We have two KSYS consoles - one in each datacenter. Basic idea is, when 1 DC acts as primary, while 2nd as standby. I'd like to have ...
    almost 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Future consideration

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