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    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

    SR-IOV vNIC port redundany over multiple CECs in a E1080

    Today PowerVC creates SR-IOV vNIC backing devices based on the saturation of an adapter port. For redundant SR-IOV networks, PowerVC picks at least a separate adapter (not the same as for the primary SR-IOV network).In an E1080 system PowerVC shou...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Support for untagged vNICs in PowerVC

    PowerVC only supports tagged VLANs when using vNICs. If a VM has Port VLAN ID 0, which means untagged, the VM can't be managed by PowerVC. PowerVC should also be able to manage and deploy VMs with untagged vNICs.
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

    PowerVC event and audit logging to SIEM (e.g. QRadar)

    We have a security requirement to centrally gather logs from various network devices, including PowerVC, in a SIEM (QRadar in our case).Currently PowerVC does not provide such option.
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Need of merge of information from PowerVC to another PowerVC

    We have two "old" PowerVC and want to move them into one new PowerVC. Currently we can only backup and restore one PowerVC to another but second cannot be integrated. We need to be able to move Hosts or a complete PowerVC into another PowerVC with...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC Support With NetApp Storage

    Banking customer has deployed NetApp (FAS8080) storage with AFF & FAS controllers. Currently CBS is deployed on AFF. And they are evaluating IBM Power8 E880 Systems for Core banking Software (Finacle 10.x).
    over 7 years ago in PowerVC 5 Future consideration

    PowerVC Server support on AIX

    Many AIX and IBMi Power customers would like to use PowerVC to manage their environment. But they do not have strong Linux Skills. Porting the PowerVC server to AIX would allow these customers to purchase and use PowerVC
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC group roles are inherited in projects

    In our PowerVC environement we have a different project for each customer/application. We utilise groups to assign roles to users, with the current way that group-role assignments work in PowerVC this requires us to configure the role for each gro...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PVC MFA Code Over mail

    Dear Team, At the customer environment, there are currently 17 PVC Applications in use. As part of the ongoing security enhancement plan, we are in the process of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all these applications. As per th...
    6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    LPAR creation with SVC I/O round robin active

    we use the following steps to create LPARs via REST API in PowerVC 2.0.1:1) Create needed volumes2) Create LPAR with already created volumes from previous step For the storage virtualisation we use SVC. The SVC is configured to use round-robin for...
    about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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