It’s 2 a.m. and your team gets the call: a critical workload is lagging, users are complaining, and the dashboard shows resource contention across multiple virtual machines. You scramble to rebalance CPU and memory allocations manually, hoping to stabilize performance before business hours. Sound familiar?

The pressure to maintain uptime, optimize performance, and stretch limited resources is relentless, especially as infrastructure grows more complex and budgets stay flat.

Enter VMRM: Your smart VM Recovery Manager

VM Recovery Manager (VMRM) transforms how virtual resources are managed across your IBM® Power® environment. VMRM can agilely move virtual machines (VMs) from host to host to accomplish workload balancing, host evacuation for firmware maintenance, or even recovery from unplanned outage events. Customer defined policy automatically moves VMs to pre-defined destinations within the datacenter. For disaster recovery automation, upon the initiation of a switch, VM Recovery Manager evacuates the production systems and restart them at the DR site which enables “switch and stay operations”. The DR Rehearsal feature enables IT to restart and test a copy of production in its own network at the DR site enabling on demand DR testing without impacting production.

Why this matters now

VM Recovery provides economical HA/DR operations on premise, or in IBM Power Virtual Server as DR Automation. It supports AIX®, Linux and IBM i. SAP customers looking to migrate to HANA on Power for scalability should look at VM Recovery Manager. VMRM offers a smarter path forward:

The Takeaway

You don’t have to choose between cost and resilience. With VMRM, you get both with automation. It’s time to shift from reactive firefighting to proactive optimization.

Explore how VMRM can transform your operations:
IBM VMRM Resource Page