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    VIOSUPGRADE / UPDATEIOS -- Add "Date" and "Time" prefixes to screen output

    Whilst running the update / upgrade (VIOS) commands one cannot easily see "when" a specific piece of screen output was written, was it a second ago or two hours? Having the extra detail displayed on the screen helps with understanding, improves cl...
    2 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Node exporter for VIOS

    We (PowerVS) request a Prometheus exporter for the VIOS that can send system and partition utilization data to the Prometheus time-series database. This would greatly assist in consolidating performance data in a single location alongside other in...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    Automatically disable disk paths that experience repeated timeouts

    IBM i is not able to intelligently avoid repeatedly using non-functioning disk paths that identify themselves as functional. Repeated I/O timeouts cause long periods of disruption and very poor performance often resulting in abnormal termination o...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Storage 3 Future consideration

    Fields for system name and system description should be filled for lldp requrests on SR-IOV adapter

    This feature will prevent failure in handling and configuration and enhance failure determination. When requesting lldp information of Power systems from the switch port the network department can confirm that they are working the the correct syst...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    resize command for VIOS

    resize command from X11.apps.xterm helps to determine current window size and to set corresponding environment variables. It is extremely useful if an administrator works with VIO through HMC interface or use some other "not clean" interfaces. res...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Submitted

    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

    IBM i MULTIPATH SAN BEHAVIOR

    Hello,Following the opening of an IBM i OS incident, we were told that we could not specify at the IBM i level the switching behavior between the different SAN paths. If on a loss of SAN path the automatic switch to another SAN path suits us, we d...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Storage 6 Future consideration

    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

    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...
    11 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

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