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PowerHA for AIX

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Add prefered site option to the tiebreaker solution in PHA

When using the current tiebreaker solution for split brain protection then it's a random based decision which site will win. For some setup it would be helpful if there would be an option to define a preferred site.
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

PowerHA - Enhance checks in cl_activate_fs in case of non NODE_DOWN events to prevent dual mount of file system

In step "cl_activate_fs" PowerHA has to bring the file system online in the case a NODE_DOWN event has happened. Current Behavior: The behavior of node2's RG takeover logic calling fsck is behaving as designed. This operation deactivates the mount...
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Future consideration

Clappmond RAS enhancemenets

Recently I worked on a number of calls where PHA application monitor timed out. Usually we can not provide a proper RCA in these cases which frustrates our customers.I propose to add an option to application monitor / clappmond to collect addition...
about 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

Non cluster VG characteristics is showing in cluster properties

Points to be resolved where cluster is configured: >VG which is not part of cluster RG , CSPOC should not varyon/query/varyoff. >If we configure reservation on hdisk and VG is not mounted in cluster node instead some other node (non-cluster)...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Is a defect

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...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Future consideration

Scale out support for HANA

This RFE is PowerHA for Linux!.Today only a two Node Cluster is supported for SAP HANA.We have have customers who are forced to setup a scale out HANA database. Because the needed HANA database exceeds the max. supported size for a Scale up HANA DB.
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration

Smart assist support for NFS server

We need smart assist support for NFS server
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 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 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under 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 ...
over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

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