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PowerHA for AIX

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16G port SAN communication support on EN0A and EN0B

TME is not supported on 16Gb FC adapters on AIX 7.1. http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10825
about 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

Add function "MONITOR_INTERFACE" in AIX 7.2 TL4

We have to stop the multicast executed by PowerHA.The function of MONITOR_INTERFACES is deleted in AIX 7.2 TL4, there is no other way to stop the multicast.
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

In the absence of multi-target SAP HANA configuration, support in PowerHA Linux, when user manually configures the 3rd site

In the absence of multi-target SAP HANA configuration support in PowerHA Linux, when user manually configures the 3rd site (say ‘C', outside PowerHA Linux which is configured with ‘A' and ‘B'), then correct handling of the replication state betwee...
over 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

GUI - Capture LPP information as part of Snapshot

When using the GUI to create a snapshot it would be useful for the "Cloning option" to also create a "cluster installp bundle" file.This file can then be used for installing the same cluster components at the target system.
about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

add cloned node to powerha cluster

Add the ability to add cluster node created(cloned) by mksysb from the existent node.
about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

HA 7.1 MultiCast Functionality

HA 7.1 multi cast functionality is not working correctly... Request to send to the switch on first attempt to sync the cluster... After a reboot of the nodes the cluster cannot sync because a new request is not send to the cluster... The cluster e...
almost 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

TME support on 16 Gb fc adapters for PowerHA SAN Heartbeat

PowerHA 7.1.3 TME support on S824 systems seems not to be in place. The adapter details are the following:PCIe2 2-Port 16Gb FC Adapter (df1000e21410f103) Part Number.................00E3495 SerialNumber...............1A51100A6C ECLevel...............
about 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

Make the RG processing more parallel

Here the description the customer put into the PMR.------Hi,We have PowerHA cluster with several resource groups in it.When we make failover of complete node (all resource groups) to anothernode we noticed that all volume groups must be varryed on...
about 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

PowerHA doesn't currently support integration with any current IBM monitoring solutions

PowerHA currently has no integration filesets to with with standard monitoring software IBM provides, natively Tivoli NetCool. This makes it cumbersome and complicated to have cluster events monitored from a central authority that dispatches help ...
over 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

DB2 manual control within Power/HA

Smart Assist menus only allow for the use of the SAP API to stop SAP and have Power/HA not interfere with the manual stop. It should be possible to also honour a manual stop of DB2 as well.
over 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration