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PowerVC support for Hitachi Storage HDT RT pool type

Hitachi storage supports HDT type pools with a subtype of RT , which supports flash storage.PowerVC does not support this type of HDT pool.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Selection of LPM network (MSP pairing)

When migrating virtual machines between hosts (LPM), it is not possible to select what network to use (MSP Paring). Today it will choose the network where the default gateway is defined. It's not always optimal.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Description column in Virtual Machines page

It would be really nice if you could add a column in the Virtual Machines pages, so we can see the description of the virtual machine. Maybe a generic column builder, so we are able to build our own pages.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Create Volume does not default to the DEFAULT storage template

Create Volume does not default to the DEFAULT storage template. Instead it lists them in alphabetical order with the first one highlighted in the pull down menu.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

RFE-? PowerVC support for Hitachi Global Active device volumes

PowerVC support for Hitachi Global Active device volumes
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

RFE - PowerVC support for Hitachi RT storage Pool

PowerVC support for Hitachi RT storage Pool
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Use all IO groups when creating multiple vdisks

When creating multiple vdisks, I would like the ability to spread the disks across all IO groups in an SVC cluster.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Add Red Hat support in PowerVC SDI server nodes

We have proposed the PowerVC SDI solution to a Canadian university and they noted that they have free Red Hat licenses to apply to their solution however we specified Ubuntu 16.04 for the server nodes because this is the only supported hypervisor....
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVP - Add virtual IP support for mover partitions

Currently PowerVC only supports SEAs and backing devices for MSPs. We would need the HMC team to provide VEA IPs in REST responses in order to validate the user specified IPs (from conf).
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN

For the storage template of the SVC (storwize) the client needs to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN of the storage template. We know that there is the advance...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered