Planning VM Recovery Manager HA

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To implement the VM Recovery Manager HA solution, you must review your current high availability (HA) recovery plan and consider how the VM Recovery Manager HA solution can be integrated into your current environment.

The VM Recovery Manager HA package consists of filesets for the installation of KSYS, GUI, and VM agent. The following table describes the key components of the VM Recovery Manager HA solution:

Table 1. VM Recovery Manager HA filesets
Subsystem name Description Filesets
KSYS Base product software that must be installed on an AIX® logical partition. It provides the technical foundation of VM Recovery Manager HA and command line-based administration by using the ksysmgr command.
  • ksys.hautils.rte
  • ksys.ha.license
  • ksys.main.cmds
  • ksys.main.msg.en_US.cmds
  • ksys.main.rte
GUI Optional fileset that can be installed on an AIX logical partition for accessing the VM Recovery Manager HA solution by using GUI. You can install the server on the KSYS logical partition also.
  • ksys.ui.agent: GUI agent fileset that must be installed on the KSYS nodes.
  • ksys.ui.server: GUI server fileset that must be installed on the system that manages the KSYS nodes. This fileset can be installed on one of the KSYS nodes.
  • ksys.ui.common: GUI common fileset that must be installed along with both the ksys.ui.server (GUI server) fileset and the ksys.ui.agent (GUI agent) fileset.
VM agent

Fileset that can be installed on the guest virtual machines that are running either AIX or Linux® operating systems. If you install the VM agent and enable HA monitoring feature at the VM level , you can monitor the individual virtual machines and the applications that are running in the virtual machine. Otherwise, only host level monitoring is supported.

VM agents are not supported for Ubuntu Linux distribution and IBM® i operating system. Therefore, the virtual machines that run Ubuntu Linux distribution or IBM® i operating system are monitored only for host failures.
  • AIX: ksys.vmmon.rte
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): vmagent-1.7.0-1.0.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): vmagent-1.7.0-1.0.suse123.ppc64le.rpm