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My votes: PowerHA for AIX

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PowerHA cl_extendvg

Today if you extend a cluster VG through smit hacmp or by command cl_extendvg the disk will be added even it is used already on another system.In non PowerHA environments (extendvg) this is avoided and you would have to force the command. In Power...
over 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

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".
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

Support of SAP HANA multi-target scale-up configuration (A->B & A->C) via Smart Assist in PowerHA

Multi-target HSR (Hana System Replication) A->B & A->C will likely be the most desired configuration for the customers who want both HA and DR for HANA. We are implementing it at the customer now, but since there is no smart assist, ther...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

Smart assist support for NFS server

We need smart assist support for NFS server
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

Need only minimum capabilities for PowerHA ROHA accessing HMC

When defining ROHA we have to setup access to HMC to fulfill various task e.g. increasing/decreasing CPU Entitlement and Memory as an examplt. FOr this we need to use e.g. HSCROOT which has full access to anything on the HMC including Shutdown a P...
almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

alternative IP address for the PowerHA SystemMirror GUI communication

The official documentation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPHQG_7.2/rnstandard723/rnstd723.htm) says, that this is already implemented which is wrong.When the SMUI GUI starts gathering the clusterdata it connects not over the alt...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

Extend PowerHA Smart Assist NFS monitor

In a SAP environment configured with PHA Smart Assist. Do we get PHA hangs when the total cluster gets stopped. This happen due to the fact that NFS gets stopped before the SAP RGs get stopped.
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Under review

Tie Breaker disk add site priority

It will be useful if we would add a priority option to the tiebreaker solution.The idea is: - If the system with a lower priority will do a sleep of some seconds (need to be configurable), before it tries to get hold of the Tie-breaker. This would...
about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) support

Increasing security requirements need to have MFA for the login at least in the GUI. (better for both, GUI and CLI)
almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

Integrate Fix Central in the PowerHA GUI

the availability to have an easier way to just see FixCentral information.IT would be an interesting feature to integrate this in the PowerHA GUI to have it on a single Management interface.
almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

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