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My votes: PowerVC

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Parallelize Rolling Upgrades of FPO Spectrum Scale

PowerVC is the OpenStack implemetation for POWER servers. In new versions PowerVC can be installed as SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) edition.The storage part of the SDI is implemented with Spectrum Scale 5.x which is shipped with PowerVC.Po...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Adding support for PowerVC for storage management without connection pools

IBM PowerVC manages storage providers via a TCP connection pool. Some vendor storage drivers, such as PowerMAX does not implement tcp keepalive, as such sessions in the pool can be closed due to lack of use, causing powervc session management issues
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Highly available SDN through Nova Link

We have a need to have a highly available SDN in Novalink
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Change of Power Server Name in PowerVC

We have the need to change names in the HMC for managed systems (Power Server) for any reason from time to time. Currently PowerVC is not detecting it automatically and take proper action also for already installed and managed OS on this managed s...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC Support for Ansible vnic network deployment

Hi The deployment of VM fails if SR-IOV only network are used in the os_server module in Ansible. Nova is logging it is unable to find a network. Please implement support for SR-IOV and vNics deployment and control.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

NetAPP Storage support for PowerVC

We are using Netapp Storage Model : FAS8040 and AFF8080 in our core Banking Environment. Now we are planing for private cloud and considering PowerVC for the same. But as netapp is not supported this is a roadblock for us, Please add netapp suppor...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

PowerVC should support use of IPG for accessing Tape/VTL devices in a multi fabric environment (more than 2)

It is widely accepted that mixing of tape and disk via same FC/vFC adapaters is not recommended. Current IPG implementation only supports Tape without using IPG. It will be very useful for to provide IPG support for Tape and preferrably on separat...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Manage LSS ID on DS8K storage template from GUI

Enterprise customers using DS8K storage, have requirement to specify the LSS ID while creating Volumes. Currently Managing LSS ID is not possible through GUI. This creates lot of complexity in management, when customer has to manage very high numb...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Adding support to deploy LPARs with VNIC failover and 4 backing devices

A couple of customers raised the question, how they can deploy LPARs with more than 2 backing devices through the PowerVC guy. From my actual state of information, this is only possible by using the the OpenStack API of PowerVC. The customers who ...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC support for IPv6

We're running out of IPv4 space in our PowerVC environment and we're moving to IPv6. This will affect future PowerVC builds and we have a few pending coming up.
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration