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My ideas: PowerVC

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    PowerVC virtual appliance DLPAR and LPM support

    The appliance is running on Power .Please enable DLPAR and LPM support including the required software and configs in the Operating System build
    about 17 hours ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    PowerVC running EOL MariaDB 10.5 embedded database

    Current PowerVC levels 2.2 and 2.3 both are running at MariaDB version 10.5 which is EOL as of 16th July 2025 Please add latest version of the MariaDB to PowerVC versions 2.2 and 2.3
    2 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    PowerVC topology evaluates actual mapping not powervc known details

    PowerVC topology provides great vizualization of PowerVC expected zoning path to storage for a given vm. The map provided is based on PowerVC expected information as saved in it's internal databases. ideally there would be an option to query the b...
    24 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

    Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
    about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    PowerVC should fully support Peer Zoning

    Can we please get PowerVC to fully support Peer Zoning. It was an idea in 2023 but we now in 2025 and still no Peer Zoning. This is an industry best practice recommended by IBM and Broadcom.
    2 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC should fully support Policy-based HA

    A lot of IBM flashsystems are now supporting policy-based high availability (PBHA). And a lot of clients are eager to start using it.To my knowledge, IBM PowerVC still does not support PBHA. It also isn't in the announcement for PowerVC 2.3.2 (the...
    2 months ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

    Drop down lists to have a search function.

    Currently, to find an item in the drop down lists in PowerVC, you have to look for the item that you need manually, there is no search function. In large environments with many projects and storage templates this becomes cumbersome. Having search ...
    3 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Dropdown lists to be sorted alphbetically

    Currently the drop down lists in PowerVC appear to be sorted by the openstack object ID number. This is not very user friendly especially when there are a large number of items in the list. It would be much better if these lists were sorted alphab...
    3 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Since PowerVC is using Python 3.11 and the RedHat OS still depends on Python 3.9. Can't you have PowerVC run in a virtual Python 3.11 environment?

    The systems administrators (your customers) would benefit. As it stands today. we can either collect a powervc-diag or a sos report. we can't do both.
    3 months ago in PowerVC 2 Under review

    Compliance - Data retention policy required for data and logs within powervc

    To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within PowerVC that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
    4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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