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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 ...
15 days ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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.
17 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Support for changing the name of a storage pool without impacting powervc

Adding the ability to change the name of a storage pool without impacting PowerVC would simplify storage management. Currently, if a storage pool's name is changed directly on the storage array (an "out-of-band" change), PowerVC does not detect th...
3 months ago in PowerVC 2 Submitted

Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
4 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Support Volumegroup snapshots in PowerVC

Since SVC support Volumegroup based snapshots, please implement this feature in PowerVC.
5 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
7 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
9 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC Support for selected I/O Group at SVC Host Creation

We have a customer with a larger number of hosts (> 256) each having 8 FC ports (paths). Because PowerVC for the deployment of new VMs creates the host object on the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in each SVC I/O group the SVC's limit of 2048 ...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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