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  • 1.  Ordering VMRM HA

    Posted Tue February 14, 2023 09:45 AM

    Is IBM VMRM HA orderable as a standalone software license or is it part of base software? If orderable, what is the procedure please?



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    Suleman Malik
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  • 2.  RE: Ordering VMRM HA

    Posted Wed February 15, 2023 08:25 AM

    IBM VMRM HA can be ordered as a separate license and also available with AIX Enterprise Edition bundle.



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    JES KIRAN CHITTIGALA
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  • 3.  RE: Ordering VMRM HA

    Posted Wed February 15, 2023 10:15 AM
    Suleman, this really isn't a topic that anyone in this group can answer. Ordering product is a function of sales, econfig or iERP are tools used for configuring and ordering. Normally this activity is done by a business partner/reseller. What you should do is to engage with the business partner involved in your project and they most certainly will know how to do this function.





  • 4.  RE: Ordering VMRM HA
    Best Answer

    Posted Wed February 15, 2023 12:48 PM

    Hi Suleman, 

    The following is from one of my recent internal blog entries (note that I pulled out pricing but left the PIDs for reference since this is an externally facing community):

    https://w3.ibm.com/w3publisher/ibm-vm-recovery-manager-internal-wiki/blog/201d4740-a669-11ed-a498-6f7f3673456d

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    You may already be familiar with the two available software options that you need to consider when purchasing an IBM VM Recovery Manager solution.  VM Recovery Manager for HA enables VM Restart capabilities within a local data center and VM Recovery Manager for DR enables all of the HA & DR features along with the ability to deploy any of the available topologies including:  "HA", "DR", "HADR", or "HADRHA" essentially allowing for DR orchestration and mobility of VMs between sites.

    The following two Product IDs (PIDs) may be purchased a la carte:

    • 5765-VRM - HA only Version ($ per managed core count)
    • 5765-DRG - HA & DR all inclusive version ($ per managed core count)

    These are Perpetual (non-Expiring) licenses that include the 1st year of the support Software Maintenance Agreement (SWMA) and the support renewal every year thereafter would be 20% of the list price. 

     

    These two products may also be acquired when purchasing some of our extended OS offerings and other available product bundles:

    • AIX Enterprise Edition [5765-CD3 (AIX 7.2) or 5765-2E1] => includes VMR HA (5765-VRM) along with a number other products
    • Private Cloud Edition Bundle [5765-ECA (with AIX 7) or 5765-2C1] => includes VMR DR (5765-DRG) along with a number of other products
    • Private Cloud Edition Bundle [5765-CBA (without AIX) or 5765-6C1] => includes VMR DR (5765-DRG) along with a number of other products minus the OS

    * Note that 2nd PID is for a subscription option available in a 1 or 3 year term

     

    The final and new option to acquire VMR licensing is via a Subscription model which introduces new PIDs that may be ordered in 1-5 year increments.  This model includes the product support for the term of the subscription and may be renewed or extended at any time.   The PIDs for these are:

    VMR HA Subscription: [5771-RH2 - 1 Year] with the 577X incrementing by 1 for each additional year up to year 5

    VMR DR Subscription: [5771-RD2 - 1 Year] with the 5771 incrementing by 1 for each additional year up to year 5

    Feel free to reach out to myself or the offering manager Steven Finnes (finnes@us.ibm.com) with any additional questions.



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    Michael Herrera
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  • 5.  RE: Ordering VMRM HA

    Posted Fri August 02, 2024 09:04 AM

    Hi Michael, Steven, Jes

    I have a customer who already had VMRM HA that comes with their AIX Enterprise License. They wanted to configure sixteen server hosts in a host group that spread across 2x DCs. These DCs are configured as active-active DCs. However, there is a limitation of only 24x VIOS that equates to only twelve servers assuming 2x VIOS per server. Are there plans to increase the number of VIOS from current 24 so that more server hosts can be configured in a host VMRM host group?

    As the customer already have VMRM HA that comes with AIX Enterprise Edition, are they able to just upgrade the VMRM HA to include just the DR component?  If I were to add Feature Code 5765-DRG, then it seems that we are double charging the customer with the HA component. Is there a feature code that I can use just to add the DR component without the HA component?

    Thanks in advance for your advice...



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    SHAWN LEE
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  • 6.  RE: Ordering VMRM HA

    Posted Fri August 02, 2024 03:11 PM

    one more thing in addition to what Mike provided, you can order an MES from AIX EE to the Private Cloud Edition. 



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    Steven Finnes
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  • 7.  RE: Ordering VMRM HA

    Posted Tue August 06, 2024 11:04 AM

    Hi Steven, refer to below:

    There is an overlap of VMRM-HA between Private Cloud Edition and Enterprise Edition.  As I am not able to replace or MES Enterprise Edition with Private Cloud Edition in the e-config for the server, I sought the e-config team's help. Their advice is to add Private Cloud Edition as an additional OS on top of the Enterprise Edition. But this would result in double charging the customer for components already in the Enterprise Edition:

    The price should reflect the difference of AIX Private Cloud Edition and AIX Enterprise Edition, not a total price of AIX Private Cloud Edition to be charged again to the customer

    Would appreciate if you can render further advice on this please...



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    SHAWN LEE
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