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My votes: PowerVC

Permission to create a CLONE as a separate permission

Currently, the CLONE permission is included in the default roles. Please remove the CLONE permission from the default roles and make it available as a separate role. This change is necessary to prevent partitions from being copied without restrict...
12 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

Create a key-value pair or implement regular expressions for labels SR-IOV Networks

As described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervc-cloud/2.3.2?topic=networks-physical-network-names, port labels are strings associated with SR-IOV physical ports. When you create a network, you can pick a physical network name and associate it ...
24 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize support to align with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize feature releases.

Currently PowerVC with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize support is not aligned with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize feature releases. PowerVC should align with FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize releases in the same way that it aligns with Power releases...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

Please add a feature to be able to see storage host group name a VM is assigned to, using PowerVC command line?

Please add a feature to be able to see storage host group name a VM is assigned to, using PowerVC command line? Also we would like to know how to find the host group name format
13 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

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...
8 months ago in PowerVC Future consideration

PowerVC VA to be able to edit the config and use FQDN, instead of IP to login to the UI.

During the installation when prompted to add FQDN it did not accepted it even when nslookup were providing the same DNS entries, so it was configured with IP.
26 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

Add support for signed certificate installation for PowerVC Appliance

PowerVC customers need to provide a signed certificate for accessing PowerVC UI, PowerVC Appliance does not provide a feature to import the customer signed certificates This can be manually circumvented by engaging support to PESH to install, howe...
4 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

Enable scheduling automatic Backup via PowerVC Web UI

Taking automatic Backups of PowerVC ensures that in worst-case szenarios the Company is able to redeploy PowerVC with minimal time & reconfiguration effort. In previous Versions admins had the functionality to configure automatic backup schedu...
4 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC to provide LPAR/VM console in the PowerVC UI for HMC managed hosts.

Currently the PowerVC doesn't provide a LPAR/VM console in the PowerVC UI for HMC managed hosts. This function is only available for Novalink managed hosts. This provides an inconsistent user experience between Novalink and HMC managed hosts in Po...
12 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC Appliance tool to support firewall configuration

clients need a way to manage the firewall in Powervc similar to HMC
2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted