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    Improve time to get Full Sysdump in Highend Mission critical systems with huge amount of memory

    As IBM we describe Highend Power servers as one of the most resilient and available platforms to hold mission critical workloads. Those servers have increasing amount of memory (several TB) and hold many workloads in parallel thanks to our PowerVM...
    over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to specify objects to OMIT/Ignore from the admin domain

    While the administrative domain offers the ability to manually add resources into it, and provides capabilities such as ADDCADMRE that has wildcards and omits, one of the powerful features of the administrative domain are the automation policies: ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Native PowerHA support for IBM FlashSystems (SVC) three-site configurations

    Currently, PowerHA supports three-site configurations with IBM DS8000 storage through HyperSwap with Global Mirror technologies, and with Geographic Mirroring using multi-target Geographic Mirroring. IBM FlashSystems introduced three-site support ...
    6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Submitted

    RPO History and Thresholds

    With asynchronous replication sessions in PowerHA, recovery point objective (RPO) type information is currently displayed in fields like data exposure and freeze time. However, this information is not retained for historical purposes and the regul...
    6 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Selection the length of server power cables

    The #6577 is described on the below manual that manufacturing select length when a rack is configured in the factory.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=pr-supported-power-cordsCustomer said that in spite of the connection for servers to PDU...
    about 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 0 Functionality already exists

    PDU cables shorter than 4.3M

    The PDU cable (ex. #6654) is currently only length of 4.3M.The PDU cable is too long and become a big cable roll under the rack. And these big cable rolls are as many as PDUs.Please provide PDU cables shorter than 4.3M including the perspective of...
    about 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 0 Under review

    InfiniBand adapters for Power10 based hardware

    Customers are asking for a higher performance networking option than is currently available from the existing RoCE-capable 100 Gbps Ethernet adapters on Power10 based server models. Based on the performance seen with POWER9 based servers, they exp...
    about 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

    Add 5250 and VTxxx web console to FSP

    Please, add a web-console or telnet/ssh console to the FSP for single-LPAR systems.
    7 months ago in Power Systems Design 2 Under review

    When delete user profile(DLTUSRPRF), disregard user with IASP which cause failure.

    Power HA admin domain has issue with user that has job description with initial asp set, while trying to delete user profile. Receive message below on source: CPIBB12 Resource MFERNAN7 is inconsist> CPFBB2E Job submission failed for cluste> ...
    4 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

    Concurrent replacement for the FSP

    The FSP (Flexible Service Processor) cannot be changed in Concurrent mode. The E870C and E880C Systems have a dual FSP configuration, the failover of a FSP System does not create an outage.But the replacement of the failed FSP must be done after o...
    over 7 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

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