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    IBM i VPM client partition backup on DataDomain VTL - add TS3500 support

    System: IBM i V7R4 - Virtual Partition Manager (VPM)Actor: User needing new feature Product DellEMC DataDomain is a commonly used product that provide Media Library emulation. Actually, the only emulation usable and certified for IBM i is the TS35...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Not under consideration

    Suppressing Hardware Problem messages

    We normally get the messages related to any hardware problem on the IBM i O.S which is good if it is on-prem server. But considering a user who has cloud based subscription for an LPAR in the IBM Cloud then these kind of messages doesn't makes any...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Not under consideration

    Disable "Failover Rehearsal" Button for WorkGroups in Rehearsal Mode

    Disable the GUI "Failover Rehearsal" button for a workgroup when it is in Rehearsal phase.
    over 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Ethernet card type 268C (Virtual) reports incorrect speed

    Ethernet card type 268C reports as 1G even though the PHY card served by VIOS is 10G. In the result, monitoring software reports thresholds exceeding 100% when throughput exceeds 1G. Use Case: We get alerts when Ethernet usage approaches 1G.
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Not under consideration

    Increase the number of hosts supported by VMR

    Currently VMR is limited to 12 Hosts.Some customers have more than 12 hosts. Therefore they need to have a solution which supports more than 12 Hosts. A support for 64 Hosts may be a good starting point.
    about 6 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Support For Pure Storage For HA + DR

    Ford has switched to Pure Storage and would like to automate DR such that during a disaster, VMRM would be able to automatically change the replication and mounts such that Ford can failover to DR automatically.
    about 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Future consideration

    Provide a V5R4M5 Virtual Machine Environment

    There are a huge number of customers locked onto V5R4 due to the change in the LIC that cannot upgrade to new versions. MANY of these customers are stuck with no vendor support and have no capability of moving to anything newer than POWER6 hardwar...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 2 Not under consideration

    Power Systems Recovery Manager - Enhanced DR orchestration capabilities

    We are trying to leverage Power Systems Recovery Manager for meeting following objectives, -Diagram shows business requirements.-Only DR is depicted in diagram-DC only hosts PROD -Under normal condition DC runs PROD and DR hosts PREPROD, T&D a...
    over 6 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 4 Planned for future release

    Scot Stansell

    When Critical, Warning and Maintenance counts are displayed, the event details can be displayed by hovering the mouse over them. With an event for each count, the dashboard will be more useful. All counts should have a corresponding hover detail.
    about 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

    5733-icc allow/support from local files in qsys.lib

    manual says local file can't be in qsys.lib. If you create savf of file, library/schema as a savf and want to upload to cloud, this should be allowed, even if one has to use qsys.lib/mylib.lib/myfile.file method (it works)
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

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