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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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VM Recovery Manager

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Make the modify DrTargetHost persistent for VM's that are already on the desired target host

In a cluster configuration that uses mxn_pairing you have an option to change the target host manually after it has been automatically set. We use that functionality as we requirements for certain VM's to be on specific hosts. For licensing purpos...
almost 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 0 Delivered

ksysmgr restore snapshot for powerha config

Currently, the ksysmgr restore snapshot utility is not supported for ksysmgr in a clustered environment. This needs to be extended to a clustered environment as it is a commonly used function for quick restoration of a setup.
about 3 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Add Support For Dell/EMC UNITY Storage in VM Recovery Manager

Add support for the DELL/EMC UNITY Storage arrays in the VM Recovery Manager solution.
over 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Run site discovery (or refresh/clear configuration of HMC hosts) without any host added to ksys

VMRM is not able to refresh configuration without any host. All details in support case: TS001971159
almost 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

VM Recovery Manager VM turns automatically to Managed after discovery and LPM

VM Recovery Manager after discovery or LPM(on HMC) is turning all machines to Manage mode by default instead to unmanage. All details in Case: TS002040830
almost 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Limit KSYS to discover disks attached to KSYS managed LPARs & using local cache when nothing changed since last discovery

Name of the software vendor: IBM is the product vendor but the product needs to discover and use EMC storage array disks using Storage Enabler softwareApplication name: VMRM-DR KSYSData store(s) for the application e.g. DB2 z/OS, DB2 LUW, Open Sou...
almost 4 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered

Testing RFE

This is for testing - description
almost 5 years ago in VM Recovery Manager 1 Delivered