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My votes: PowerVC

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    VMs TAGs for VMs for DRO

    During discussions, it came up as a request for improvement to be able to handle TAGs to classify DRO operations in PowerVC. For example, define a TAGS of virtual machines for "development" or "SAP" and in this case PowerVC based on these TAGs cla...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC doesnt sync VM name change to HMC partition name

    VM name change in PowerVC doesnt update the partion name on HMC which causes trouble in certain scenarios.
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Introduce Proactive notification of any issues reported in the PowerVC log

    We recently had an issue where the SSH connection to storage broke (not PowerVC’s fault). We did not notice this issue until users complained of PowerVC not working to add disks or VMs. In the PowerVC log, it was obvious that storage had an issue,...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Administrator view to manage all lpars from different projects

    Single view for planning or maintenance purposes, we have to jump from one project to another and it becomes hard to manage. It would be very helpful if there is an administrator view where we can see all LPARs from a single view regardless which ...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Allow multiple branches to be selected for LDAP user list

    Enable the LDAP configuration to support multi-branch starting points for the organizational units and containers that it walks to find the users and groups to use within PowerVC.Currently you can only specify 1 starting point and the LDAP walks t...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Grey out Clone option when not supported by SAN backing device

    Currently the Clone option of a deployed VM is only supported on VMs using specific SAN backends. It currently is not supported on our DS8000's. The option to Clone a VM should check the volumes first and if any are on a non-supported SAN the opti...
    about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Project Manager Approval Process Scope Change

    When using shared images, the project's Project Manager is no longer getting approval requests and it goes straight to an admin. My thought behind a PM is that they would be the one to manage all VMs in that project's scope. So by not allowing the...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Support for NetApp and iSCSI

    System: PowerVC 1.4.x Actor: User needs new feature The products is used to support the customer in deploying VMs (LPARs) on IBM Power Platform. Integration of NetApp Storage in PowerVC in order to manage iSCSI discs in the deployment and maintena...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Rebalance button to spread Vms across the hosts?

    Currently we cannot rebalance VMs across hosts without using DRO or maintenance mode.Clicking this button button "rebalance VMs" would help, based on various parameters like cpu utilization, allocation or MSPPools utilization , it would be VERY nice!
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Customize PowerVC Logo in UI

    Wish to have the ability to customize the PowerVC logo in the upper left of the UI.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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