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PowerVC

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...
22 days 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
6 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...
7 months ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Add support for Storwize Volume protection to PowerVC

Storwize supports preventing volume detach or delete operations if IO activity has happened in prior minutes. PowerVC will fail vm delete returning from storwize error CMMVC8478E However, without protection, if a vm is deleted , that can lead an a...
14 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
about 1 month 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...
3 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...
3 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC Appliance - add support for scheduling tasks

Clients using the PowerVC Appliance would like to be able to schedule tasks as would be done on an open OS system via Cron, PowerVC appliance 2.3.2 has no scheduler
3 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC should fully support Peer Zoning

Can we please get PowerVC to fully support Peer Zoning. It was an idea in 2023 but we now in 2025 and still no Peer Zoning. This is an industry best practice recommended by IBM and Broadcom.
7 months ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Support Volumegroup snapshots in PowerVC

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