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PowerVM VIOS

Need to add "-g" flag to viosupgrade like alt_disk_mksysb

Basically when a New NVME disk is replaced and the system is not rebooted yet viosupgrade fails with alt_disk_mksysb with below error 0505-212 alt_disk_install: System checks indicate that hdisk0 may not be bootable. This may be because the disk's...
about 9 hours ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

Bypass the target port checks for Inactive Live Partition Mobility

bring the feature presented in Live Partition Mobility (LPM): Bypass NPIV target port level validation to AIX, for inactive LPAR at least on a short term basis.
4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

Add flag to viosbr backup command to exclude security files

The viosbr command has been expanded to backup all of the trusted AIX file sets (twice) which has increased the size of the tarred, zipped backup file 1,000 times (not a typo). A flag has been created to not use these files when restoring but the ...
9 months ago in PowerVM VIOS Planned for future release

Enhance updateios to support security patching between VIOS releases

With increased focus on security patching, we find we need to patch VIOS several times between VIOS releases with security fixes. The 'updateios' padmin command is only suited for updating the VIOS level, not installing individual patches. Current...
7 months ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

Fix Fileset Issue When Moving VIOS ioslevel to 4.1.1.20

Hi, We recently upgraded the ioslevel from 4.1.1.0 to 4.1.1.20. The update completed successfully with no errors reported, and the ioslevel reflects the expected version. During post-update checks, however, we observed an inconsistency in the osle...
28 days ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

Would like to see NVMe over TCP/IP supported in the IBM Power Hardware and IBM Storage offering lines

NVMe/TCP is to provide a low latency, shared storage solution to take advantage of existing high speed network infrastructure. Would like to see this supported within the VIOS so that all supported OS's ( AIX / IBM i / Linux on Power ) can take ad...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Future consideration

Add support for using fcnvme devices as Physical Volumes for Shared Storage Pools

fcnvme (NVMe over Fibre Channel) seems to come with better performance and fewer constraints than fcscsi.Since AIX already supports this technology, I would like to see SSPs extended to allow for these devices to be used as the Physical Volumes fo...
4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

Support for SFP mix in 4-port adapter EN24, EN26

Actual 4-port adapters EN24 and EN26 don't support mix of SFP. Many customers require to split management network usually based on 1Gb Ethernet from 10/25Gb access ports. 4-port adapters are ideal product to have dual VIO setup with pairs of these...
over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS Submitted

LPM for LPARs with vNIC causes false call home

When LPM moving LPARs whith vNIC adapters to a different power server during the removal stage we see errlog entries in the hosting VIO server like: Jun 19 08:50:29 ent16 T LNC2ENT_EEH_EXIT EEH recovery exitJun 19 08:50:28 sysplanar0 T PCI_RECOVER...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Future consideration

Suport internal disk drive encryption on VIOS

Some companies have the requierement that all data stored in disk drives to be encrypted at rest. With the newer NVMe drives with hardware encryption capability and / or the availability of the hdcryptmgr in AIX 7.3, please support the encryption ...
4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS Future consideration

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