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    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 ...
    3 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    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 ...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    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...
    about 1 month ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    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

    IPv6 - Provide default gateway configuration for SST LAN adapter interface

    It is not possible in the existing OS releases to configure the default gateway for IPv6 interface in SST LAN interface. The only way how to make IPv6 interface working for this interface is to configure a LAN switch with auto discovery setup whic...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Future consideration

    PowerVC with PeerZoning/Smart Zoning

    A new type of storage zoning is peerzoning or smartzoning. This method is clearer and more practical to handle. e.g. debugging etc.
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

    Oauth authentification for email

    Hello, In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online I...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Future consideration

    Project names should be more clearly visible and sorted

    When you start PowerVC it asks you which project you wish to work on (if you have access to more than one I guess). It displays prominently across the top of the screen. If you want to change the project you are working on, you get a short list of...
    4 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Preferred node support for IBM SVC stretched cluster / PBHA

    In a IBM (enhanced) stretched cluster or a PBHA (Hyperswap) implementation, it is necessary that the preferred node of a LUN is on the same site then the VM is running. Otherwise every IO has to go twice over the ISL's, because the multipath drive...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Image import via OVA with two storage-provider

    If you do a hostbase mirroring (in AIX mostly standard) you have it mostly mirrored over two storages(provider). You want to export this image. The OVA format can be used to export two disks. Unfortunately, PowerVC stops the process.
    8 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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