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    PowerVC should use mobile ressources during ARR operations

    Management of mobile ressources automaticaly done by PowerVC during ARR operations
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Would like to have command clearing not needed powervc-diag logs

    We would like to have a command for easy way to clear, remove and delete old or unneeded powervc-diag logs.Example: powervc-daig -clear
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Allow multi-volume select for storage resizing operation

    It is common for users to have multiple storage volumes attached for databases or other workloads to support both throughput or capacity needs. When storage volume sizes need to be increased it is much faster and safer to allow selection of all th...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Please add nslookup, host, dig as part of the base os and not part of option 31, dns

    I need to use nslookup (could maybe settle for dig or host) from IBM i. However only my lpars with option 31, dns, loaded have that command. I feel that option 31 dns is a 'host' feature while nslookup, etc are client features. I do not want to lo...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 3 Not under consideration

    PowerVC EfficientIP for IP and name automization

    In our roadmap for replacing HPE Orchestration with vRA/vRO we need (as vRealize use) EfficientIP API native support for name/ip mgmt.
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    SNDSMTPEMM RCP keyword reformats valid email address

    We're in the process of replacing use of SNDDST with SNDSMTPEMM. Some of our group email addresses contain an embedded dash '-'. When an email address with a dash is passed to SNDSMTPEMM, the command processor reformats the address with a space ' ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Networking 4 Is a defect

    High Availability for PowerVC integrated Software defined Networking for Novalink

    IBM PowerVC Software Defined Network (SDN) is designed as a neutron service running on novalink managed power systems, that service on novalink is not monitored by novalink and has no redundant service, as such any service outage event of the neut...
    about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Attach volume should default to "new volume" tab

    When attaching volumes to a VM, the default tab is "available volumes" and not "new volumes". The problem with this is the "available volume" page spends time doing a lookup on the storage providers before the page can load, whereas the new volume...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Enhance PowerVC managed VMs' backup/restore methods with VIOS virtual optical library support

    On our Legacy PowerSystems; we use VIOS virtual optical library (via vscsi adapter connection) for storing & restoring AIX mksysb images. On ourPowerVC-managed infra; we haven't been able to utilize this; since PowerVC does not support permane...
    about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Renaming the storage pool from PowerVC

    Currently if the Database admin renames the pool in IBM SVC after it is tied to PowerVC, the storage provider goes into critical state and PowerVC becomes unusable. According to PowerVC development: "We don't support renaming the storage pool from...
    over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

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