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My votes: PowerVC

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Add whitelist support for discovered storage port

PowerVC support for "whitelist" port management of discovered storage
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered
114 VOTE

powervc support sr-iov vnic via HMC

Many banking clients want to use sr-iov and PowerVC, but they donot want NovaLink, because they have HMCs. So they want PowerVC can support SR-IOV via HMC.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Provide option in Compute Template to enable performance collection

Currently, we enable performance collection on the HMC on each lpar to send data to Nmon. There is no option in the Compute template in PowerVC to do so which means we have to go in to the hmc manually after the lpar is provisioned to check the "e...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC to map initiators with DS8884 HA ports across I/O enclosures to achieve high availability & load balancing

Current Situation:Customer is using PowerVC 1.3.2 to enable cloud based infrastructure. Customer is using Power8 E880 servers & DS8884 storage system which is integrated with PowerVC. While deploying new VM, PowerVC maps each initiator with a ...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add SVC port selection used by PowerVC for zoning

Expand "Storage Connectivity group" or "Zoning Policy" (wherever is more appropriate) configuration details and granularity around Target Storage. Today PowerVC connects to the SVC cluster via it's service account, collects the nodes' fabric (FC) ...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC support for addition / detach / deletion of multiple volumes

The current PowerVC version 1.3.2 allows the addition / detach or delete of only a single volume to/from a virtual machine within one operation.This RFE is about enhancing PowerVC's volume add / detach / delete function to support multiple volumes...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC capability to restore previous backup to later version

PowerVC has the capability of restoring from backup. This request is that we be able to restore from a previous backup in the event that we upgrade or reinstall product.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC with Failover Capability

Our Company uses PowerVC to build out and maintain AIX VMs. In order to deploy this appliance in our production environment, we would need a highly available solution. We are requesting a redundant solution for PowerVC.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Ability to zone Storage Controller (SVC) specific ports

A customer wants to adopt PowerVC to automate and manage more efficiently AIX VMs. However PowerVC uses all ports of SVC (Storage Controller) to zone AIX virtual FC adapters depending of storage access requirements set in SCG and FC. SVC level por...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Support custom io group names for SVC

If the customer configured their SVC IO groups other than the default, PowerVC will fail to provision. This is due to hard-coded values in the PowerVC Cinder Driver Code.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered