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My ideas: PowerVC

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Allow saving of GUI Preferences

PowerVC 2.0 interface:Please either remember the GUI display settings or let me define my defaults for them.
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Support for HyperSwap in A9000 ( XIV ) with PowerVC

We would like to use PowerVC with HyperSwap in A9000 ( XIV )
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Ability to change storage connectivity group of an existing VM

Hi, I raised TS001364504, to ask how to change the storage connectivity group of an existing VM in PowerVC. The answer came back that this is not possible, the storage connectivity group can only be set on the creation of a new VM. Hence raising t...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Deploy VM with exsisting LUN by PowerVC

When deploying new VM with PowerVC, new volumes for boot/data are created. But in some cases, customer would like to deploy new VM on existing volumes, but this is now allowed by today's PowerVC as far as I know.So, I request a function to deploy ...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Image sharing between projects

Enable support for "public" or "shared" images to enable service providers or multi-tenant enterprise consumers to easily reuse PowerVC images.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Change default for PowerVC Host Maintenance Mode Panel

'Enter Maintenance mode panel' on PowerVC GUI has 'Migrate all virtual machines to another host' selected as default - requesting that this is either set to 'None' by default or a configurable parameter to allow customer to chose what the default ...
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

VMs lost half NPIV paths before RMC is ready

when attaching a new volume to a new vm with "remote restart state = "Local Storage upgrade failed", the other previous created vm's LUN map paths would be partially deleted
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

HyperSwap support for PowerVC

Please enable HyperSwap support for PowerVC
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Within PowerVC restore original lpar distribution after LPM Evacuation or SRR event

PowerVC provides the simple ability to initiate an one-click evacuation of a managed system and in addition a way to initiate a simplified remote restart operation for a group of or specific lpars after a managed system crash. But there is no way ...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC support for SVC child pools

Request to have SVC child pools supported by PowerVC.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered