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    Warning when reach the 16 nodes limit in SSP cluster

    There is a limit of 16 nodes in a SSP cluster, but you can add a 17th without any warning message. I think it would be better to be informed.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    VIO device naming convention after LPM (vfchostX)

    See case TS002260514:LPM/HMC does mess up the AIX device names on target VIOS.Especially if using the "vios-virtual-slot-number" on the target VIOSs i would assume the device naming is the same on both. But it is not as we know.
    over 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Simple green-screen 'Readiness' command for PowerHA

    Provide an OS/400 command that will check the readiness of a PowerHA configuration and return a 'ready' or 'not ready/attention' response. Use Case: Monitoring a PowerHA mirroring configuration is a manual process using green-screen or Web Navigat...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 3 Future consideration

    Add Control/Device Descriptions to the monitored resources.

    This would be useful as some of us have Control/Device descriptions that are tied to the application setup within the iasp. This would benefit anyone that has to go through adding /removing multiple devices due to the above process. (We have anywh...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Future consideration

    Change the timeout limit for Hyperswap on IBM i driver

    I'm opening this request on name of a Bank in Spain. They have PowerHA Express with DS8K hyper swap. During the upgrade of the firmware of DS8K some of the IBM i LPARs switched to the secondary storage box. They think this behavior is not acceptab...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / PowerHA 1 Not under consideration

    IBM i handle disk timeout error during VIOS outage and dump

    IBM i to the disk I/O time out error recovery processing when a VIOS partition is unresponsive allowing faster fail over to another available path.'
    about 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 4 Future consideration

    When is the next upgrade to viosecure expected? Some ideas for inclusion for CIS compliance...

    Is an upgrade to viosecure planned? What new items will be included? Our CIS compliance fails to pass the AIX benchmark, but we've not found a VIOs benchmark. Will some new password parameters from CIS 3.1.2.* be added to VIOs, such as: mindigit, ...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Use syslog service on VIO to send syslog into to syslog-ng splunk server

    In talking with our Premium Proactive Support Team Lead Kellie Kronenberger she encouraged us to submit what our security team is seeking to implement via syslog as regards certain VIO servers in our environment. What our security team wants to ha...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Planned for future release

    VIOS syslog configuration for splunk

    We will move into Service Now as a replacement from existing solution. Splunk is used by the Service Now solution. To create incidents for VIOs I need syslog data sent to splunk.
    about 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

    Add *DEVD with Attribute "DSPVRT" to the Admin Domain

    At our customers we configure the authorities of objects of type "*DEVD/DSPVRT" to ensure that only authorized users can use a workstation. Because of that when we do a SWITCH we need to have the *DEVD's in the other LPAR with the same authority. ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / PowerHA 0 Submitted

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