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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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    Partitions table view select column to sort save to preferences

    The table view of Partitions defaults to sorting by name. It would be helpful if when user sorts on another column that the change is both persistent when returning to this screen and/or saved with user preferences.
    about 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    HMC API Json support

    It's important that HMC API support Json format.We would like use HMC API and integrate them on our API systems.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Managed System Uptime or reboot time - from CLI

    I would like a way to use a command line command from the HMC to get into the ASMI and get the last Current Operating State for all managed systems we own. This will be used to know when all of our managed systems have been last rebooted, thus upg...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Need to see RPM for Fans for each Power Server

    We have had massive Datacenter problems due to wrong running Fan Speed on several E1080 so i want to see at the HMC GUI and also getting via RestAPI and/or CLI Fan Speed in RPM for each Fan per Power Server and an average
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    HMC should give a warning message when reducing current configuration resources of stopped LPAR by stealing process

    When HMC needs to steal cpu or memory resources from stopped LPARs in order to fullfill a LPM request or a LPAR start operation because there are not enough completely unused ("free") resources in managed system, current configuration of stopped L...
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    customer requests to enable "classic view" on HMC v9

    Our customer Zurich Insurance(HongKong) IT manager requested to enable "classic view" on HMC v9. This function was exist in v7 and v8. But they didn't understand why the feature was disabled in v9 which had caused them a lot of additional workload...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

    HMC V9 Partitions table view to include column for IPL Source

    On our previous version of the HMC firmware V7790 the display of LPARs on a server included a column for the IPL Source. After upgrading to new HMCs running V9 firmware to manage our POWER9 servers, the Partitions display (table view) no longer in...
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Planned for future release

    Allow dual HMC to manage each others BMC for updates

    Currently, POWER based HMCs require an extra Linux based ppc64le LPAR in order to update the BMC on the HMC without a browser. In a dual HMC environment the opposite HMC should be allowed to update the HMC BMC.
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    HMC GUI, LPM, Validate/Migrate, drop-down box to select frame

    HMC GUI, LPM, Validate/Migrate, drop-down box to select frame This drop-down box has never been sorted. I have many frames so I'm always searching my frames in the list. Could you please sort this list ? This option is part of your development too...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Provisioning LPAR ID in GUI screen during LPM process

    We just completed our test system migration using the GUI LPM. It was smooth as [Deleted] and worked like charm. One major drawback. The partition ID changed and not under our control. Thus new partition on target system comes up with random Lpar ...
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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