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    PowerVC HMC connection to use sshkey

    The HMC connection should allow for ssh keys to stop relying on the hmc username and particularly password. As our HMC Password is meant to change once used. So using a public/private key after the first authentication is necessary.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

    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

    PowerVC add support for mkvolume in place of mkvdisk

    mkvdisk does not fully support iogroup placement ibm.com mkvolume Use the mkvolume command to create an empty volume from existing storage pools. You can use this command for high availability configurations that include HyperSwap, but it can also...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Remote Restart & Entering maintainance mode to support collocation affinity rules

    Currently PowerVC doesn't function in a desired manner when utilising collocation affinity rules. When you put a host into maintenance mode, if that host has multiple virtual machines in the same collocation rule, you cannot migrate active virtual...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Compliance - Data retention policy required for data and logs within powervc

    To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within PowerVC that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
    2 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC Host / Virtual Machine / Storage / Volumes Complete Inventory

    This is help full for internal Auditing and tracking...
    8 months ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

    PowerVC support for Storage Virtualize Safeguarded Snapshots (SGC 2.0)

    As an IBM business partner we have several customers using an IBM SAN Volume Controller stretched-cluster configuration with PowerVC for Private Cloud.The customers are interested in a Safeguarded Copy cyber resiliency solution but it cannot be re...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    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

    please add validation support for remote restart to hmc and pvc for future releases

    currently neither PVC nor HMC offer any kind of validation for remote restart. So there is no way to know in advance if a frame goes down, remote restart is working. We are asking for a validation feature either in PVC or in HMC to make sure that ...
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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