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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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    Model Context Protocol (MCP) will help HMC to integrate in the Agentic-AI ecosystem

    Unfortunately, it is currently only possible to execute actions or collect information via REST API,HMC cli and the GUI. However, in the age of AI and WatsonX, other interfaces are needed. It would be good if MCP services were also offered in the ...
    6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add advanced vNIC to HMC Collection

    If you have a trunked VLAN on the network side, set the VLAN as PortVLANID. This is used very often. Unfortunately, there is no option to do this with Ansible in the HMC-collection. i create also a git issue https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-hm...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Show VLAN amount per vAdapter when creating new virtual networks in HMC GUI

    Show VLAN amount per vAdapter when creating new virtual networks in HMC GUI
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    HMC LPAR configuration CPU/Memory allocation checker and advisor

    Would be great HMC will be doing checks in case there is configuration attempt not following best practices according NUMA architecture or ratio between EC vs vCPU. Check ratio between CPU / Memory according SRAD best practice. In case will be pos...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    CMC to display available and used ECOD processor days

    Several of my customers extensively use Elastic Capacity on Demand on/off processor days for general usage on E880C Enterprise servers configured with eight permanently active of 192 core E880C systems. They experience a challenge in monitoring th...
    almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    HMC delivering rperf calculation

    Would simplify and speed up the process to gather this info, which will be helpful in the sizing of new customer environments and comparison of customer environments.
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add os license expiration as an optional column on list of partitions on the HMC

    Add OS_license_expiration as an optional column available on the HMC list of partitions. See this link https://imgur.com/gEpL1ZO
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Create HMC JSON api

    I'm wondering if it's possible to create new HMC's API working with JSON and not with XML. Other appliances (for example Storwize) are using this language for rest APIs.
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Add a "Run Now" option on an HMC scheduled task

    As part of HMC patching it's good to take a backup before after so a recovery point is available. Where the HMC has a scheduled backup already defined it would be convenient to have a "Run now" option against the schedule entry in the GUI.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    CLI command to list LPAR description and Group tags

    HMC V10R1 GUI allows you to define LPAR/VM description and group tags. This is wonderful feature specially on a multi-tenancy system. However, there is no CLI command to list this information. We use the CLI command for ease of reporting.
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

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