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    Setting a specific SCG as default for better integration with orchestration solutions

    The concept of an SCG is Power specific, so the default OpenStack API does not offer a direct way to provide the SCG during LPAR deployment. This creates a lot of work to integrate orchestration or DevOps solutions with PowerVC, because we have to...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC allows both local and LDAP users to authenticate in parallel

    You can either have the local users OR LDAP configured with PVC, not both. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSXK2N_1.4.1/com.ibm.powervc.standard.help.doc/powervc_ldap_hmc.html Also as per the IBM technician for a case opened there is n...
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

    PowerVC SAN zone creation feature request

    Currently, PowerVC creates HBA or WWPN specific SAN zones. Since the SAN fabrics can contain aliases and zones that are not necessarily PowerVC related, this can result in a SAN administration nightmare. I would like to see PowerVC create LPAR/VM ...
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    PowerVC - LPM validate not supported

    When we have to manage a lot of AIX's (more than 2000), LPM operations become critical. We have to be sure that LPM operations will succeed. Same process that are on HMC. PowerVC at this time, don't propose to validate a LPM operation.
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Add support for API roles to delete network ports without Full Administrator rights

    Customers that can manage a vm, even delete it, via API with assistant administrator role cannot delete a network PORT related to the VM they can delete. This may be an overlap of https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PVC-I-470
    6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Make VM search field search within ALL the VMs and not just the displayed ones (PowerVC 2.0.3)

    In PowerVC 1.4.4, when using the search field in the VM List page, the search was done through the list of ALL VMs and not just the ones currently displayed. Right now in PowerVC 2.0.3, if you want the search to be effective you first have to make...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

    Enable filtering SR-IOV RoCE adapters for deploys

    With IBM I R740 supporting DB2 Mirror over RoCE, we would like the ability when deploying IBM I LPARS to have the ability to only deploy against the RoCE Adapters vs a random selection of the SR-IOV adapters. This will allow us to deploy multiple ...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Add Filter on "Networks" tab on new VM Deployment window

    When deploying new VM ; it would be great to have Search filter on Networks Tab. Currently we have +150 Networks defined on our PowerVC, so it is not very convenient to sort & scroll when trying to find the correct network :)
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    powervc to hmc ssh pubkey authentication

    Currently, connection from PowerVC to HMC console is defined using: IP address, username and password.I'd like that PowerVC authenticates on HMC console using SSH key pair.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC - when configuring vm name results from namelookup should not be used for host name

    A customer would like to configure vm deploy AND have A records that are invalid, Rather than fixing the A records in their DNS, they want a new feature, where powervc will ignore dns resolution response, for the A record of the IP to be allocated...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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