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My ideas: PowerVC

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PowerVC manager should be able to deploy to PowerKVM and PowerVM

PowerVC manager needs to support both PowerVM and powerKVM n same environment
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Resizing VM not allowing to specify value outer than minimum/maximum in profile

Resizing VM not allowing to specify value outer than minimum/maximum in profile. I think the resize value should be with in the minimum/maximum values in profile. This is the case for PowerVC V 1.3.0.2 For e.g, can not resize a tiny or small VM to...
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Active Memory Sharing

AMS is not possible right now with PowerVC
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

PowerVC deploy to push complete hosts file for domain

IBM PowerVC will push host file update to a deployed VM to add the local host , it also allows updating VM with DNS, this feature is to push a fully populated hosts file to the target VM to bypass the need for a DNS
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

IBM PowerVC hybrid LDAP support

Openstack defines support for hybrid LDAP support documented herehttps://github.com/SUSE-Cloud/keystone-hybrid-backendthis allows isolate of work roles to unique ldap servers
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Manage SSP disk snapshot

Our company is using POWERVC to deploy AIX LPAR on our Power systems using SSP disks. We need to use the powervc interface to manage the SSP snaphots, so we could use this funcnionality without the need to access the VIOs directly. By manage, we m...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Let client choose the LPAR ID of PowerVC Deployment

The Current PowerVC Driver does not let you choose the LPAR ID to be specified.However we have seen cases in the field that the customer wants to choose the LPAR id to be used for deployment.Major reasons are because1. HMC taskroles rely on LPAR I...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Virtual partition shutdown

HMC "Operations -> shutdown" asks if you are replacing a battery.This is impossible with only virtual resources.STOP ASKING ME THIS!
about 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

Power-Not-Responding

Our current PowerVC version is 2.0.2. We unable to create the LUNs. Unable to deploy new servers. Here -> Images - Image list - we have filled all require columns then after clicked deploy button not responding.
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

ACS???????????????????????

ACSのSQL Scriptsにてデータ表示後、コピーをするとハング状態となる。IBM開発側にて再現しており、「ACSを利用する際に、サイズの大きなファイルから一度にすべてのデータを要求するとディスクアクセスが大量発生するため、ユーザーインターフェースがロックされってしまうのは仕様です。将来的には仕様変更が検討されていますが、現時点では予定などは目処が立っておりません。」との回答あり。
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration