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    Live Partition Mobility: Allow overrides of CPU and LPAR ID on target CEC

    For hosted environments, moving a partition from P9 to P10, for example, is often not at CPU-for-CPU but at CPW-for-CPW (e.g. 15000 CPW = 1 CPU on a 9009-22a but not on a 9105-22a). And LPAR ID is automagically assigned.This is counter-productive,...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    Add feature to be able to add mount options to NFS cross mounts

    For some our NFS cross mounted filesystems we need to be able to add additional NFS mount options. This is a requirement triggered by SAP. It also should be added to the SAP Smart Assist tools.
    almost 3 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    BRMS ICC backup to AWS Cloud only allows US East region for storing data

    Please see PMR Case number TS016529098. We are looking to use BRMS to send backup data to an S3 bucket at AWS. By default it is directing to AWS US East region and we are told there is no option to send data to another region. We faced issues with...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 1 Under review

    IBM Cloud CLI option for IBM i

    It would be great to have an IBM Cloud CLI ported to IBM i. This would allow to run snapshots, exports or queries to the cloud billing without living IBM i LPAR. I can also imagine some kind of orchestration between on-premise and cloud LPARs.
    11 months ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 0 Under review

    Cloud Storage Solutions for i 5733ICC - Multi-threaded downloads

    I've configured the mutil-threaded uploads for this product and it made a significant improvement to the upload times. It would be beneficial to be able to do this for the downloads.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Virtualization and Cloud 4 Under review

    PowerHA cl_extendvg

    Today if you extend a cluster VG through smit hacmp or by command cl_extendvg the disk will be added even it is used already on another system.In non PowerHA environments (extendvg) this is avoided and you would have to force the command. In Power...
    over 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    PowerHA SMUI support of ECDSA keys

    Current SMUI is using 8+ years old SSH libraries which do support only RSA keys. More modern keys like ECDSA are supported by used libraries for about 4 years. I do not understand why modern UI is relying on ancient libraries and does not allow us...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    Need only minimum capabilities for PowerHA ROHA accessing HMC

    When defining ROHA we have to setup access to HMC to fulfill various task e.g. increasing/decreasing CPU Entitlement and Memory as an examplt. FOr this we need to use e.g. HSCROOT which has full access to anything on the HMC including Shutdown a P...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Under review

    Extend PowerHA Smart Assist NFS monitor

    In a SAP environment configured with PHA Smart Assist. Do we get PHA hangs when the total cluster gets stopped. This happen due to the fact that NFS gets stopped before the SAP RGs get stopped.
    about 5 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Under review

    Straighten Event handling in PowerHA / SystemMirror

    PowerHA uses "events" to handle transitions to various states. (At least some of) These events are poorly described in the documentation and the usability of PowerHA would greatly profit from an improvement there. Furthermore - as described in the...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Under review

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