In today’s digital-first world, downtime isn’t just inconvenient, it’s expensive, disruptive, and potentially damaging to your brand. Whether you're running mission-critical workloads in banking, healthcare, manufacturing, or retail, high availability (HA) is no longer a luxury. It’s a necessity.

Let’s talk about two powerful solutions built for IBM® Power®: PowerHA® SystemMirror® and VM Recovery Manager (VMRM)

PowerHA is IBM’s premier high availability clustering solution for AIX and IBM i on Power. It automates rapid recovery from unplanned outages failures, enables concurrent software and hardware maintenance during planned outages and protects against site outages. With automated failover, real-time hardware replication, PowerHA minimizes downtime, provides protection to critical workloads, and simplifies HA management with near zero dependencies on IT administration. Its agile integration with either AIX or IBM i makes it a robust and scalable solution for enterprises that demand continuous availability.

VMRM is a lightweight, restart HA/DR solution for virtualized environments on IBM Power. It monitors virtual machines and automatically restarts them on healthy hosts in case of failure or host evacuation in the datacenter no manual intervention needed. VMRM is ideal for environments where full clustering isn’t required. It offers automated recovery and VM movement between hosts as well as single command planned or unplanned failover to a disaster site. As and bonus,  VMRM HA supports backup and restore snapshots with safeguarded policy.

Unlike third-party DR tools, PowerHA and VMRM are purpose-built for IBM Power server, leveraging the platform’s reliability, scalability, and performance. PowerHA is tightly integrated with AIX and IBM i, giving you an ideal experience across your infrastructure. With platform-native intelligence, flexible deployment options, and a proven track record in industries where downtime is not an option, these solutions stand out.

Whether you're a CIO planning your business continuity strategy, an Enterprise Architect designing resilient systems, or an IT Ops leader managing uptime SLAs, PowerHA and VMRM help you reduce risk of outages and data loss, meet compliance and SLA requirements, improve operational efficiency, and allows for business continuity across hybrid cloud environments.

High availability isn’t just about technology, it’s about reliability. Your customers, partners, and employees rely on your systems to be up and running. With PowerHA SystemMirror and VMRM, you can deliver that reliability with confidence.

🔗 Learn More & Take Action

Explore how these solutions can fit into your HA/DR strategy:

👉 Visit the PowerHA SystemMirror page

👉 Visit the VMRM page

Let’s make downtime a thing of the past.