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PowerVC support for saving/restoring customer entered meta-data in case of re-install / restore operations

A key differentiator for PowerVC, as compared to management with just HMC, is the option to augment objects with comments to further clarify the role of that specific object. An example is a VM where we add a comment that this VM is used in the co...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Disable feature which will power off a vm without user action

PowerVC design is to force a power off of a vm without operator action if PowerVC determines the state of the vm is not in agreement with it's internal known state openstack used to provide sync_power_state_interval to disable this feature by sett...
8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Split host definition in SVC into 2 entries to avoid degraded hosts

PowerVC creates a single host definition in SVC and adds all VFC WWPNs (active ones and inactive ones used during LPM) to it. This results in a SVC host definition, which is always marked as degraded. Customers usually creating 2 host definitions ...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Add ssh key authentication type for HMC connection

Please add possibility to use ssh keys for PowerVC HMC connectivity, in a similar as there is possiblity to use ssh key auth type for Storage connections.
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Expiry dates for snapshots

We take snapshots for application and OS work which we only wish to keep for a set period of time, usually two weeks. Currently we need to utilise manual processes outside of PowerVC to track when to delete a snapshot eg: calendar reminders, reque...
12 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

PowerVC support imports existings VMs with VNIC / SR-IOV & VLAN ID 0 (without VLAN)

Import in PowerVC existing AIX VMs without VLAN ID on VNIC/SR-IOV is not possible (because without VLAn ID -> the VLAN ID is 0).
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Editing IPGs after adding new hosts in PowerVC

Unfortunately, there is no option to edit IPGs if they are already in use. However, if you add new hosts to the PowerVC. You must then set the tags for the new hosts for the respective WWPNs. (Example DATA/BOOT)
8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Enable A Single Backup Node to support multiple Storage Providers connected via IVR on separate VSANs

This enables to create and use a single VM as a backup node where you have VSAN separated SVCs providing storage connected with VSAN separation between SVCs. Althought you could MAP a volume using IVR to a single VM coming via separate VSANs, it i...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Enabling SpectrumScale Snapshot in PowerVC for VIOS SDS

With PowerVC 2.0 and VIOS 3.1.2.0 there is a new possibility to use Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Remote Cluster mounts in PowerVC as storage provider.Actually there is no possibility to make snapshots from client lpar rootvg as it could be done with othe...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

LPM in PowerVC for VIOS SDS using GPFS as Storage Provider

With PowerVC 2.0 and VIOS 3.1.2.0 there is a new possibility to use Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Remote Cluster mounts in PowerVC as storage provider.Actually there is no possibility to make use of LPM in this environment. The possibility for LPM should ...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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