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PowerVC

administrator role is able to use public shared images

Currently, only the administrator role is able to use public shared images. The advanced roles have rights and permissions concerning images inside the project alone. Please change that the advanced roles are able to use shared images. This will h...
4 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

Enable Remote FlashSystem Port-Group Configuration During PBHA Storage-Template Creation in PowerVC

In PowerVC, a port group is configured during storage-template creation by selecting the required physical storage ports. For a PBHA storage template, PowerVC currently allows the port group to be configured using physical ports from the primary F...
12 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC 2.3.2+: Add Support for Policy-Based Replication with SVC Compatibility

Introduce native policy-based replication support in PowerVC, with full compatibility for IBM SVC (SAN Volume Controller) replication workflows — including proper handling of replicated LUNs during extension and deletion operations. Currently, Pow...
24 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

allow operating system users to use LDAP with kerberos

allow to configure operating system users from ldap and use kerberos
30 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

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...
about 2 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...
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
about 2 months 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 ...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

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.
2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

in check_env menu, check the fact that "no_os" is specified in vm details.

If not, we can't resize cpu or RAM for a vm with powervc. Vm details info are removed when the vm is unmanaged/ managed
2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

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