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My ideas: PowerVC

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    Renaming the storage pool from PowerVC

    Currently if the Database admin renames the pool in IBM SVC after it is tied to PowerVC, the storage provider goes into critical state and PowerVC becomes unusable. According to PowerVC development: "We don't support renaming the storage pool from...
    over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

    Coexistence of SEA and SRIOV/Vnic configurations

    For customers working to transition some or all of their environment to SRIOV backed networking, PowerVC has some challenges. Firstly, PowerVC does not allow LPARs to be changed from SEA to SRIOV/Vnic and then use the same vlan/ip address that was...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Update PowerVC storage usage to report Storage allocated rather than in USE

    PowerVC relies on the storage provider to return details of "free" space, Hitachi HBSD returns ,incorrectly, the free space which is allocated as thin provisioned but not free for use. This can result in PowerVC operator failing deploys as disk sp...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Allow LUN resizing for volumes that are part of an instance snapshot.

    Customer's using flashcopy snapshots on Spectrum Virtualize for data protection and PIT recovery currently have to delete their snapshots in order to resize LUNs in PowerVC. Spectrum Virtualize 8.4.2.1 supports the resize of the LUNs if it is done...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future 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.
    about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

    Make PowerVC installer a step-by-step

    The process for installing PowerVC is scripted, however you can see it's made of several step. The problem is that if installation is broken for some error, it can't be re-started because the pre-install checks say that PowerVC is already installe...
    over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

    PowerVC - VM Grouping

    Actions taken against a VM are most of the time not desired against a single VM. Applications consisist of multiple VMs. Ex: Hadoop cluster, ICP, DB2 web +db +app.... Allow actions for VM by creating groups for actions such as "shut down", snapsho...
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Allow PowerVC to reflect Profile Changes made to the LPAR profile on the HMC.

    This will be very helpful when changing any profile configuration on an LPAR. From what we have seen this is not working today. also when changes are made to a LPAR profile you have to unmanage and re-manage the LPAR in powervc. this can be extrem...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Enable customer to modify default login.html screen and put standard Mandated GOVT warning restrictions on it

    All Govt sites require login panels to display standard access restriction text - PowerVC is currently non-compliant
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    openstack services on multiple IP addresses

    Normally, openstack services are running on loopback interface - each service on its own port. Additionally, there's a Apache httpd server that acts as a reverse proxy - it listens on primary interface (probably eth0) and forwards requests to the ...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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