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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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PowerVM LPM and Affinity Groups

Add Affinity group support in LPM (new command line only parameters) enabling preservation/assignment of affinity groups when partitions are migrated between systems.
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Custom DHCP range on HMC

Requesting the ability to add custom DHCP ranges to Power HMC.
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Multiple lpar performance

Enhancement to monitor multiple lpar performance from HMC at managed system level. Presently only individual lpar performance can be monitored. To understand and better utilize resources by comparing or analyzing multiple lpar performance at manag...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Creating SSP Logical Unit while partition inactive

Using the HMC 8.8.5 Enhanced GUI for creating a new SSP LU mapping to existing vhost Adapters (redundant on two VIOS) I got an error. Obviously the reason was that the LPAR was turned off. But the message does not mention anything about it. Messag...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

HMC remove software version from Pre/login screen

The pre/login screen for our HMC is showing the software release "Hardware Management Console (V7R7.9.0.3)"
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Possibility to extract LPM activity from HMC

Our team needs to log all LPM activity on dual-HMC setup to be able to provide proof to Oracle company that the partitions running Oracle have not been moved to another Power frame. We would like to have a log that contains all LPM activity on the...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

HMC Replication using HMC command Line

As per IBM support, HMC replication is not supported via HMC command line and could only be done using GUI. This is a problem when you need to manage a lot of HMCs with frequent replication issue. It is really difficult to login to each HMC and ch...
about 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

enhance HMC command saveupgdata to allow FTP to another server as non-root user.

This is a DCR enhancement to HMC command saveupgdata to support saved files to HMC hard drive to be send over to a remote site that can then used as a backkup files to create USB or DVD media for recovery purposes. With this capabilities, HMC save...
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Delivered

Allow sha1sum to hscroot

Please allow access to sha1sum command for hscroot (like sum ).A symbolic link to /usr/bin/sha1sum in /usr/hmcrbin could be trick.
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

visual display on HMC for server health

HMC displays on an image the health of the server, for at lest:-fans-Electric Power
over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered