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VM Recovery Manager 1.5 SP1 Key Features

By JES KIRAN CHITTIGALA posted Tue February 14, 2023 06:40 AM

  

VM Recovery Manager DR for Power Systems Version 1.5.0.1 DR

Enhancements in the VM Recovery Manager DR for Power Systems Version 1.5.0.1

1. DR support for EMC Unity storage with asynchronous replication:

Consistency Group will be created for the EMC Unity disks automatically and supports

verification, planned, unplanned DR operations. Also supports failover rehearsal.

2. Enhanced unmanaged disk support:

Unmanaged disk feature allows to include disk only in the home/production site and excludes the disk,

when VM restarted at backup site. Previously unmanaged disk also need to be replicated site.

It is enhanced to configure unmanaged disk for non-replicated disks.

3. HADR/HADRHA cluster improvements:

I. Previously verify command does validation of both HA and DR configs for HADR/HADRHA cluster types.

With enhanced support, user can validate  DR-only config

II. Discovery is allowed in HADRHA configs, when non-active site is down. It helps for HA

config setup after a unplanned DR operation.

4. RAS:

I. Improved error message details

II. The size of KSYS trace log files is increased from 4 MB to 20 MB.

5. Performance improvement for recovery and cleanup operations.

Enhancements in VM Recovery Manager DR GUI

1. Selection of target host for move operations in an asymmetric host group.

2. The user interface (UI) agent installation process is updated to support multiple KSYS

subsystems.

VM Recovery Manager HA for Power Systems Version 1.5.0.1 HA

Enhancements in the VM Recovery Manager HA for Power Systems Version 1.5.0.1

1. Host Group alignment:

HA is enhanced to support user defined SSP membership changes.

2. Enhanced Restart support:

HA restart is supported through port level validation also, in addition to LUN based validation.

With port level validation, storage login can be avoided.

3. RAS:

I. The host monitor log collection feature includes enhancement about spooling files.

II. The size of KSYS trace log files is increased from 4 MB to 20 MB.

Enhancements in VM Recovery Manager HA GUI

  1. The user interface (UI) agent installation process is updated to support multiple KSYS subsystems.
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