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    Prevent vNIC Port Flapping

    We recognized that SR-IOV / vNIC implementation have a different behaviour when the physical link is having problems. This leads to flapping adapters in some cases. Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEA) have different kind of parameters to configure to p...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    viosecure Firewall - add support for adding a whole subnet

    Currently viosecure firewall supports only adding single IP addresses ( -address parameter) to the firewall rules. However, it would be good to have a possibility / option to add whole subnet sometimes, without the need to explicitly set each IP a...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

    need a new PTF Group for IBM i compilers and developer tools 5770-WDS

    Recently I had some PMRs -> APARs resolved by PTFs. The problem is, these new PTFs are not automatically included on any CUMe package and I was very surprised to learn that they were not included in any of the current Group PTFs for IBM i 7.1, ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 3 Not under consideration

    cron log auto maintenance

    Customer met /var full problem several times in VIOS 3.1. I checked their environment and found /var/adm/cron/log is very huge. It causes filesytem full. I know /etc/cronlog.conf maintained cron's log, but VIOS doesn't set that file. I know cusome...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Planned for future release

    Single VIOS Shared Storage Pool with Internal Storage

    This request is for single VIOS / Single Server use case for Edge or Single Node implementations. These implementations are 'self contained' and do not have external SAN storage. Having VIOS provide a Shared Storage Pool on internal disk enables P...
    10 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    VIOS Logging to a syslog endpoint

    We are being pressured by our security teams to provide logging from the VIOs to a syslog endpoint that feeds splunk.We have a config from support that would allow this, but it has to be implemented via the oem_setup environment and is not support...
    almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Planned for future release

    VIOS Performance collection replacement tool

    Is there a replacement tool available within VIOS for the "VIOS Performance collection"? Existing tool results are not supported on any modern browser due to security consumers. I think the tool was useful and gave me some idea of what is happenin...
    7 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Enable NFSv4 for Remote image catalogue setup and install for PTFs as image catalogue method of doing remote install through NFS supports only NFSv3.

    Enabling NFSv4 for Remote image catalogue setup and install for PTFs as image catalogue method of doing remote install through NFS supports only NFSv3.As per the IBM support team, the remote install of any ptfs or images through image catalogue ov...
    11 months ago in IBM i / PTF and Service 0 Submitted

    VIOS no-prompt updateios

    Hi IBM, Would you be able to add a flag/option to the updateios command to suppress the 'Continue bos.rte.install installation [y|n]?' and other similar prompts?
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

    viosupgrade force/yes option

    viosupgrade command helps to upgrade VIOS 3.1 to 4.1. If viosupgrade finds some outdated filesets which are possibly not supported on VIOS 4.1, it stops and waits for user's confirmation. In an automated process it means that a user should confirm...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

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