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Set Virtual Machine Name by DNS lookup on IP address chosen

On an image deploy you have to enter a virtual machine name and then either enter in an IP or have it select from the pool. There is no link to my DNS servers to create an A entry for that name. Also, I want to have a list of predefined names that...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Deploy LPAR with a hostname different than the LPAR name

today the hostname inside the lpar is the same as the lpar name specified at deployment.It would be interesting to choose a different hostname like you can choose an ip address
almost 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC can not manage existing VMs with XIV storage

PowerVC can not manage existing VMs with XIV storage; however can create new vms in PowerVC and manage them using XIV storage.
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

assigning another boot disk then remove the old one

The thing is that volume, in the VM, has been alt_disk_copy to another volume. Now the VM is booted on the new volume, so I don't need the old one anymore.Normally, in a powervm Environnement, I assign a new disk, alt_disk_copy to it, then remove ...
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add support for VMAX thin provision with overcommitted storage

VMAX supports thin provisioning whch allows a storage pool to be "over commited" allowing reported USAGE to be above 100% PowerVC will report storage recreate failure above 100% reported even if not used.
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC does not report real error message/cause

I was trying to add Host to PowerVC env, it failed multiple times with "PD-A001001 Could not access the Hardware Management Console for an unknown reason. Refer to the /var/log/nova/compute-9119MHE_108EF27.log file for more details." And at the en...
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC: deployer can create a collocation rule

A user in the deployer group is unable to create a collocation rule.
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Console Access per VM via Horizon GIU

Drop-down menu behind an individual VM on the Instances Panel in CMO shows a number of actions possible for that VM, two of them being Console Access and Console Log.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Attached Storage: Extend Storage without detaching it from running VM

Attached Storage: Extend Storage without detaching it from running VM Currently, customer/user needs to detach storage from VM first before a Volume can be extended.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

Provision to input IP address and name for the >1 VM deployment

On the VM deployment page, for the >1 VM deployment, as you aware we can not enter IP address explicitly and PowerVC picks address from the IP pool. This would perfectly wrok with new environemt. For the existing environment, some of the IPs ha...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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