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My ideas: PowerVC

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    PowerVC : Add support for discovery of KVM deployed VMs when adding host

    PowerVC KVM host support is greenfield only, Customers may have existing KVM VMs deployed or may need to recovery a KVM host that had a spectrum scale cluster failure. without option to add a KVM and discover existing VMs, product is limited
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

    Keyboard error / red x cannot be cleared with the left control key in an IBM i noVNC console session in the IBM Cloud

    IBM i console session in the IBM i cloud environment uses noVNC / Power VC under the covers. After discussing this problem with Power VC development they suggested submitting an RFC. In other emulators used by IBM i (PCOMM, iAccess, etc.) The red ...
    almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Adding support to deploy LPARs with VNIC failover and 4 backing devices

    A couple of customers raised the question, how they can deploy LPARs with more than 2 backing devices through the PowerVC guy. From my actual state of information, this is only possible by using the the OpenStack API of PowerVC. The customers who ...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Include snapshot space usage in resource usage for a project.

    Currently PowerVC doesn't include the space usage of snapshots in the resource usage (Volume Storage) for a project. This space usage is effectively hidden from the project. It would be useful for this to be included as either part of the overall ...
    about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Disk Image Export Contains Only Actual Disk Space In Use

    Today the export process includes un-used/allocated disk space in the disk image. This results in very large exports. Other platforms (e.g. VMware) have an option to only include used disk space in the export. This can considerably reduce the size...
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Include ‘Deploy Templates’ and ‘Delete template’ functionality under ‘Image Manager’ and ‘Virtual Machine Manager’ roles

    ‘Deploy Templates’ and ‘Delete’ functionality within PowerVC. This does not currently sit within ‘Image Manager’ and ‘Virtual Machine Manager’ roles, which are allocated to Application Developers. Therefore they have to come to IBMi Tech Support t...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    PowerVC use other group in place of "wheel"

    Change PowerVC to support a group other than "wheel" for su privileges.
    about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    PowerVC reporting

    Use of a PowerVC reporting would offer a chargeback possibility, combining VM name, core- and memory-minutes (and possibly other parts). This report would also be good to generate from ansible and use for service follupup. also input our price for...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Virtual Machine Overview should have SRC filed to show current status codes

    When deploying a server if the instance fail to find boot source no error is reported back to the gui. Having the SRC codes show in the PowerVC GUI will allow users to see failed boots and also follow status changes.
    over 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC - versioning of instances

    PowerVC provides Snapshot to capture disk of a vm or instance. This information does not include vm details (cpu memory network etc)Capturing an image of a vm would include all data, but this feature doesn't provide a way to tie that image as a "b...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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