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PowerHA for AIX

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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 5 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 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

Better handlig of PowerHA site POL setting

Improvements for site Priority Override Location handling. In a multi-site cluster with resource group "Inter-SiteManagement Policy"="Prefer Primary Site" setting, the sitePriority Override Location" (POL) changes the cluster startupand manual RG ...
over 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

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

PowerHA DB2 HADR SmartAssist

Create a PowerHA SmartAssist for DB2 HADR.This would be useful for AIX and Linux.A SmartAssist for DB2 does exist but not if HADR will be used.
about 6 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

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.
about 7 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