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    PowerVM VIOS, the Shared Ethernet Adapter device (SEA) needs support for IEEE802.3 Ethernet frame type

    The SEA device in all VIOS releases is only designed for handling the EthernetV2 frame type with TCP/IP checksum offloading and the largesend/large_receive features.If a VIO client LPAR (IBMi or AIX or Linux) is configured to use IP interfaces wit...
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    Please implement iSCSI initiator (client)

    It would be nice to have support for placing iASPs onto iSCSI volumes hosted elsewhere. Use Case: This would help to put less often used objects on cheaper and slower storage for smaller shops who don't rely on VIOS but only on IBM i in a primary ...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / Storage 7 Not under consideration

    SEA over a 10Gb Ethernet Port in VIOS. Allow Virtual Ethernet Adapters in client partitions to run at 10Gb rather than a maximum of 1Gb.

    Current limitation of Virtual Ethernet Adapters to run at 1Gb. If a 10Gb Ethernet port is set up as an SEA in VIOS, then client partitions using the bridge of virtual to physical are limited by the Virtual Ethernet Adapter maximum of 1Gb bandwidth...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Needs more information

    Make "Memory Region Size" on a server dynamic

    Recently, we encountered issues with Grub on Linux that it was not possible to use the standard 256MB memory region size on a server. We wish that the memory region size can be dynamic or defined per LPAR instead of a system wide setting, as chang...
    11 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Prevent the automatic resuming of mirrored protection after storage systems are available again

    Hello, during an incident where a few IBM SVC nodes went offline and storage pools were not available anymore we encountered a problem with the system performance due to the automatic resuming of mirrored protection.A few minutes after the inital ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Future consideration

    VIOS - NPIV Adapters: Active WWPN Switch

    It would be awesome if there would be a possibility to switch the active WWPN online. Just a command which switches the active WWPN.
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

    Avoid partition failure when not enough memory is available in machine pool and adding volumes through virtual FC adapters

    The PMR describes an IBM i microcode failure (it hangs and forcing an IPL is the unique way to restore) when both conditions apply to a logical partition:1-adding a lot of external storages volumes through virtual fibre channel adapters2-not enoug...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Storage 2 Not under consideration

    Define storage unit by object type

    Currently only database file can have a preferred storage unit specified.There are many object types on the system and there are times where specifying a preference of NOT *SSD is required.For example image catalogues and IFS directories, non prod...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Future consideration

    Add NVMe over FC support for IBM i

    Please add support for NVMe over FC for IBMi - being it native or NPIV/VIOS. Use Case: A lot of IBM i installations are built on VIOS/NPIV connecting to IBM Spectrum Virtualize systems.Most newer storage systems are ready to provide NVMe over FC h...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / Storage 1 Not under consideration

    vNIC failback check

    In normal running Aix, if the switch port is powered off or if loses power, and then powered on The Vnic first would fail to the backup port then after the switch port is powered on, the vnic will try to fail back to the VNIC with the higher prior...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

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