What's new in VM Recovery Manager HA 1.7

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Read about new or significantly changed information in VM Recovery Manager HA Version 1.7 for Power Systems

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July 2023

  • The VM Recovery Manager HA supports SAP NetWeaver VM agent.
  • Fibre Channel (FC) mapping during the Live Partition Movement (LPM) operation and restart operation.
  • More than two nodes support for KSYS high availability.
  • Snapshot restore feature for multi-node KSYS setup.
  • Improvements in application dependency.

New Functions for the GUI

VM Recovery Manager HA GUI has the following enhancements:
  • Create Shared Processor Pool.
  • Custom consistency group (CG) name support.
  • Modify system tunable attributes.
  • The GUI displays the details of events when hovering over the critical count.

December 2022

  • The VM Recovery Manager HA solution supports KSYS node high availability with two node KSYS cluster.
  • You can enable or disable the Live Partition Mobility (LPM) feature at the system, host group, and host level.
  • The sync mode of the SAP HANA agent provides consistency between primary and secondary nodes.
  • The VM Recovery Manager HA solution displays output messages in your preferred language. The following language locales are supported with UTF-8 character encoding: German(DE_DE), Spanish(ES_ES), French(FR_FR), Japanese(JA_JP), Brazilian Portuguese(PT_BR), Italian(IT_IT), Simplified Chinese(ZH_CN), Traditional Chinese(ZH_TW), and US English(en_US).

New functions for the GUI

VM Recovery Manager HA GUI has the following enhancements:
  • Multifactor authentication features provide additional security.
  • The following language locales are supported in the GUI: German(DE_DE), Spanish(ES_ES), French(FR_FR), Japanese(JA_JP), Brazilian Portuguese(PT_BR), Italian(IT_IT), Simplified Chinese(ZH_CN), Traditional Chinese(ZH_TW), and US English(en_US).
  • The Async package is updated to the Version 3.2.4. The SQLlite3 package is upgraded to the Version 5.0.3.
  • Pop in and pop out from the event time lines.
  • Remove a host from the KSYS cluster after modifying the host group.
  • Managing and unmanaging multiple virtual machines.
  • Support to the ping and live partition movement (LPM) tunables.
  • Handling of automatic agent restart after reboot.
  • Handling of topology fetch issue caused by duplicate name.