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    Enabling "TRUE LOAD BALANCING" for SEAs in dual VIOS setup

    Currently in a dual virtual I/O server setup with SEA load sharing configured, each SEA is configured with more than one underlying virtual trunk Ethernet adapter. During the handshaking phase b/w the virtual I/O servers for establishing load shar...
    almost 10 years ago in PowerVM 7 Not under consideration

    Enable Shared Processor Pool within PEP 2.0

    In the current implementation of PEP 2.0, the processor resources available in operation are composed of the respective Base Activations per machine and the additional credits. The limit of the usable resources corresponds to the total installed p...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    520 Byte Sector Storage Support on EXP24SX

    EXP24SX expansion unit should support 520 byte sector storage devices (both HDD and SSD) for IBM i. Only 4K byte storage is currently supported, but sales team needs to pay special attention to its performance, which may spoil their productivity. ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 3 Not under consideration

    Power10 IBM i S1014 4-core SW group P05, is currently limited to 64 GB, should be expanded to at least 256 GB.

    It's really very necessary this change because all application need more resources specially memory; before 64 GB they were enough, now not anymore.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 3 Not under consideration

    Guard off VIOS when RMC get locked

    Allow Migration with Inactive Source Storage VIOS is default on to be able to do LPM when one VIOS is out of order.If you do SAN path adjustment on VIOS side using vSCSI backed devices VIOS will get blocked.viosbr is not running anymore.MS get loc...
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Need Maintenance mode switch for FW Update on SR-IOV cards

    we have several SR_IOV config running wit SR_IOV native with NIB, vNIC Failover, SR-IOV VF for SEA etc.The problem we detected is that when doing a FW update for the SR-IOV cards we have either to do a lot of manual taks to switch to vNIC Failover...
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Renew UAK in Warranty period

    Power8 and Power9 servers use UAK (Update Access Key) for firmware updates.There is warranty period and maintenance period. There is no possibility to generate UAK in warranty period (in last 30 days of warranty period) that extend expiration date...
    over 7 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    Internal LTO Tape for Power9

    In the new generation of POWER9 hardware, there is an internal RDX device. While the RDX is a lower cost device, it is extremely slow. Why in the same location, can't an Internal LTOx tape drive be put in. Similar to a 5736 that was put into the P...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 1 Not under consideration

    PowerVM to be able to override local optical devices when executing a LPM/ SRR

    LPM and SRR can't function when a LPAR has a VTOPT# device
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM 1 Not under consideration

    provide command to reset (IPL) CMBxx adapter

    Please provide command to reset hardware adapter from command line rather than need to sign on to SST, go to hardware service manager, search for correct adapter and IPL I/O processor. Use Case: As we see more and more LPARs being virtualized (NPI...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Hardware 3 Not under consideration

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