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PowerVC support for lun migration to different IO group

Customer would like to be able to migrate a LUN from one IO group to another, PowerVC supports multiple IO groups but not migrating between then
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Adding numbers of IP Adresses for a pool not only a range

In Powervc for a VLAN Network i can add a range of Ip addressesbut not always in a segment all adresses available are consecutive so i need a chance to add a number of IP Adresses e.g. seperated by comma or whatever or to upload from a text file e...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Make AIX shared lib cache transparent to the user/application

When replacing a shared lib on the filesystem you receive a "Text file busy" error even though no active process is using the shared library. AIX documentation states: Note: If the module being loaded has read-other permission, the module is loade...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Enable RAS for sysalloc when kernel_psize==16M

In the current design , sysalloc RAS is disabled when kernel_psize==16M. So ,when kernel_psize == 16M and kernel_heap_psize == 4K , kdb's xm -u does not show any records for the current allocations.The problem here is that allocs from non 16M heap...
over 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Increase the maximum allowed setting of the tcp_timewait 'no' parameter to 4 minutes

Please increase the maximum allowed setting of the tcp_timewait 'no' parameter to 4 minutes to comply with RFC 793. We understand the ramifications of setting this value too high on an AIX server. We're asking for the leeway to set the value to 4 ...
over 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

To support MaxDB 7.9 on PowerHA 7.1 SmartAssist

Our customer Saudi Aramco uses PowerHA 7.1.3 SP2 Smart Assist for their SAP MaxDB environment. We came to know from PMR 43156,999,832 and PowerHA 7.1.3 Smart Assist support matrix that MaxDB version 7.9 is not supported. http://www-01.ibm.com/supp...
over 9 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 3 Delivered

Provide safe way to poweroff NovaLink managed system

Managed system virtualized using NovaLink (Ubuntu 16.04.3) and single VIOS.NOTE: This is the case when smaller server is used. Novalink is installed on VIOS sourced disk. Because of the cross-dependency of the two virtualization components, the on...
over 4 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Delivered

PowerVC needs to handle VM state automatically after LPM

All VMs were in Active state I did migration of client LPARs for CEC H/W upgrade using HMC, after LPM, LPARs were in error state, I agree this part After H/W upgrade, moved all LPARs back to the system and those LPARs still in error state. not cha...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

lsmap command output contains spaces and the order of the fields is not as expected

1. lsmap command output contains spaces, expected is empty an string: # lsmap -all -npiv -fmt , -field name clntname status fc clntid physloc vfcclient vfcclientdrc vfchost0, ,27,U9117.MMC.06F3F56-V3-C10,NOT_LOGGED_IN,fcs0, ,vfchost1, ,27,U9117.MM...
over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Delivered

Give Shared Disk support for PowerHA Deployment

PowerVC should be able to create shared disks so we can introduce IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX which a share disk is mandatory.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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