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PowerHA for AIX

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NVMeOF support in PowerHA

Fibre Channel (FC)-Nonvolatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics (NVMeoF) protocol in the PowerVM N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) stack (NVMeoF) offers a significant boost in performance and efficiency. AIX on Power Systems, supports NVMe over Fi...
2 months ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Submitted

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

Enhance clverify to check for old entries in /etc/environment

It may happen that old HACMP environment variables my be set in the /etc/environment and overwrite the settings in the RG.The clverify should create a warning if there are these old entries. Specially if there is a mismatch to the RG settings.
about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

Add support for HP 3PAR based replication

Like some other storage products HP 3PAR does offer a storage based data replication to a remote site.But the support for HP 3PAR is currently missing.
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

Add check for file size to the verification tool

The verification tool does not check if the file size of the files in the used File Collection is the same.A warning should be created if the verification tool detected a file size delta.
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

Use "MONITOR_INTERFACE" for one network only

We have to use the MONITOR_INTERFACE flag and it must be set to disable. But it's required for one network only. We would like to keep it enabled on the other networks.
almost 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

Container support for PowerHA GUI

It will be useful to have the ability to get a pre-installed and setup WPAR or Ansible based Container Image for the GUI server of PowerHA
almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

trustchk error message issued druiing bosboot after changing powerHA syncd value

On AIX 7.2.4.2 and powerHA 7.2.3.3 we receive a trustchk error message when performing bosboot after changing the synd value from the default value of 60 to 10.
almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 4 Future consideration

Need filesystem hang and mount status monitoring in PowerHA

We are using a lot of PowerHA product on many AIX servers. Also there are many kinds of other company's High Availability products such as Service Guard of HPE, Redhat cluster, MSCS of MS etc. In some other HA solutions, there is a function which ...
about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

Hold PowerHA Resource Group w/ node that had it last

After experiencing a loss of both 10Gb links between data centers in a stretched cluster, the primary node that held the resource group rebooted 4 times thinking the secondary node had acquired the RG. Heartbeat was lost on the repository disk. Se...
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration