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PowerHA for AIX

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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...
over 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

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...
about 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.
almost 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.
almost 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Not under consideration

'WPAR-specific routing support' for PowerHA WPAR-enabled Resource Groups

We want to use PowerHA to aid availability of some critical business applications and databases running in WPARs.The WPARs have to be placed in different Network Security Zones (Prod/Dev/Test) to ensure network segmentation. So every of this WPAR ...
about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 7 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

PowerHA support handle SNMP trap notification from the SVC for automatic recovery from replication link down

I would require PoweHA support handle SNMP trap notification from the SVC as it does from IBM DS8000 family.I need PowerHA to detect link down, link degraded and link up events as it does from IBM DS8000 family, and this be shown in clstrmgr.debug...
over 8 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Not under consideration