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    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 ...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Add an option to prevent QDLS from being used

    IBM is recommending to stop using QDLS since 2010. Symmetric Multi Processing and using QDLS are also not a good combination. Sun setting QDLS is maybe a bridge to far, but giving the option to prevent QDLS from being mounted during the IPL, is ma...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 3 Not under consideration

    Extend viosecure.ctl config file with interface, address, and description fields.

    The viosecure -firewall command work now only as a port filter setup. In the /home/ios/security/viosecure.ctl there are no options to set ip addresses or ranges, neither a interface can be selected where the filter rules should be applied. It appl...
    9 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

    Enhance the CPIAD09, CPIAD0B, and CPI3E34 messages to indicate whether the connection came in an a secure port or a non-secure port

    The subject messages are all very similar and are logged to the history log when new connections are made to the system. These messages are very useful to understand the workload for connections to the system. However, there is no ability to deter...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 2 Future consideration

    Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

    CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 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...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Future consideration

    extend AIX ARTEX catalog for rdma capable SR-IOV Logical ports and vNIC backing device (adapter/ofedroce)

    SRIOV VF RDMA is NOT supported on most LP. nevertheless the default value of rdma is desired and increase VIOS memory footprint in large environments.
    over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Add IFS file encryption/decryption support

    Add OS support for transparent encryption/decryption of stream files in the IFS On the database side, IBM provided corresponding tooling when it introduced Db2 for i field procedures in IBM i 7.1. Field procedures allow Db2 data to be transparentl...
    about 4 years ago in IBM i / IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers 8 Future consideration

    add SEA Sharing mode support for adding/removing vETH adapters

    I also opened the case TS011984472. Adding or removing vETH adapters to a SEA Sharing mode will create a downtime as design limitation.Could you please re-design the SEA Sharing mode?
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Allow for profile changes during LPM to save downtime on systems

    An lpar with min 1G, desired 10G and max 16G memory profile, requires a reboot and profile change to move the min or max numbers to anything else. Since during an LPM it first creates a new profile on the target frame, sure would be nice if say th...
    11 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

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