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Hardware Management Console

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We request that the System Location field be queryable from the HMC command line, similar to other fields.

In the HMC GUI, if you navigate to System Resources, then Systems, and finally System Settings, you will find fields labeled "System Location" and "Description." These fields allow for free-form text entry. Would like the ability to query these fi...
28 days ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

Add advanced vNIC to HMC Collection

If you have a trunked VLAN on the network side, set the VLAN as PortVLANID. This is used very often. Unfortunately, there is no option to do this with Ansible in the HMC-collection. i create also a git issue https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-hm...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Add ability to set the idle timeout when LDAP auto-manage is enabled

Due to recent audit findings, we are enabling auto-manage using LDAP groups to audit users who have access to the HMC. The plan is to have users inherit user properties defined in the LDAP groups. During testing, we noticed when LDAP is configured...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Create HMC JSON api

I'm wondering if it's possible to create new HMC's API working with JSON and not with XML. Other appliances (for example Storwize) are using this language for rest APIs.
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

/extra filesystem is created only with 20GB of storage - to less for storing mulitple vios-images

When attempting to upload a second VIOS installation image to the HMC, an error occurs: cpviosimg -h xxx.xx.xx.xx -l /src_nim/iso_images -f Virtual_IO_Server_Base_Install_3.1.4.30_DVD_1_of_2_112023_LCD8250111.iso,Virtual_IO_Server_Base_Install_3.1...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Allow Simplified HMC based Remote Restart to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

Simplified HMC based Remote Restart is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and s...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings)

Add Location option per managed system (chpcm - change Performance and Capacity Monitoring settings) e. g. chpcm -l "location" to reflect where the managed system resides and to be able to achieve more granularity, when it comes to sustainability ...
8 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

LPM should not switch to Default Processor Pool

During LPM via HMC-GUI (V10 R3 SP1051 / MF71688) the setting for processor pool switches back to the Default Processor Pool, if not explicitely changed by drop-down menu. Since Processor Pools are very important to us (licences) AND there's a veri...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

HMC LPAR configuration CPU/Memory allocation checker and advisor

Would be great HMC will be doing checks in case there is configuration attempt not following best practices according NUMA architecture or ratio between EC vs vCPU. Check ratio between CPU / Memory according SRAD best practice. In case will be pos...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

HMC automated installation

It's possible to have option for fully automated installation physical HMC and virtual HMC ? This is time consuming in case IBM support request as part of solution reinstallation of HMC code and restore configuration from backup. It will simplify ...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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