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Hardware Management Console

Offer BMC compatible ISO image(s) for V11R2

It has been noted that support for a remote installation of V11R2 has been dropped using a virtual image on the BMC which is detailed here: https://delivery04-mul.dhe.ibm.com/sar/CMA/HMA/0e8yi/3/MF71772.readme.html This is problematic for remote m...
8 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

HMC vCPU Target Assignment Should Always Reach the Requested Target Value

HMC vCPU Target Assignment Should Always Reach the Requested Target Value Description When modifying vCPU allocation in HMC, administrators enter a target value (for example, 20 vCPU). Internally, HMC appears to calculate a delta (e.g. -10 vCPU). ...
14 days ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Support Reverting Password Policy Changes to HMC Defaults

Problem When testing the implementation of a new HMC password policy, it was observed that removing or deactivating the policy does not restore password settings to their default values. Instead, the values enforced by the active policy remain in ...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

HMC to provide VNC console for upstream use in PowerVC (in the same way as Novalink)

Currently the HMC doesn't provide the VNC based LPAR console that Novalink provides. This means that only Novalink managed hosts can provide a console in the PowerVC UI and then upstream to other Openstack based cloud management tools. This provid...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Enhanced HMC Password Policy and User Profile Management Through GUI

The HMC is one of the most security-critical components within an IBM Power environment, yet its password policy and user management capabilities remain limited when compared to modern security requirements. I propose adding enhanced password poli...
about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Better HMC/VIO error reporting when /tmp on VIO is full

I had a recent situation that when I tried to add virtual storage adapters (NPIV) to a LPAR, using the HMC, the process completed but the adapter was never created. I tracked down to /tmp being full on the VIO server. So, if this condition occurs....
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Replace terminology Systems with Server

Replace terminology Systems with Server. The term System is too general and broad in usage. A System can be a server, a client partition, and even a software package as in Warehouse Management System. Using the term System on the HMC GUI can cause...
2 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

make it possible to use regular expressions in HMC systems-view-panel search

the HMC systems-view search is very helpful when working with a bigger number of sytems/LPARs/VIOS connected/managed to HMC.with the search you can reduce the view to the sytems/LPARs/VIOs you are planning to work with.this helps to speed up work ...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

Generic virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) support on KVM on any other host OS

Some clients moving away from VMware and going in direction KVM from Proxmox, AHV from Nutanix or others (e.g. Platform9). The current support for the virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) is limited to Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) on U...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

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3 months ago in Hardware Management Console Submitted

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