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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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    Add automatic vNIC physical adapter selection redundancy to LPMs

    When we use the HMC or LPM Tool to LPM LPARs with vNICs it will sometimes give the Primary and backup SR-IOV Logical to the same physical adapter. This removes the redundancy. The source logical ports are on different adapters but after LPMing the...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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

    VM/LPARS description synced in HMC-pair (and to CMC)

    We would llike to use the description field for virtual servers / LPARs in HMC, but since its not synced by default we need to update both HMCs. This extra step seems unneeded since a description for LPARs should never differ in between HMCs, ther...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Align "upgvios" (HMC command) with "viosupgrade" (VIOS command)

    As all (Ansible) development work has now stopped on the ibm.power_vios collection it would be very helpful to align the capabilities / command line flags of the (HMC command) "upgvios" with those of the (VIOS command) "viosupgrade". In doing so, ...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 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

    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
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Partition Virtual Storage Diagram - update label from OS400 to IBM i

    The Partition Virtual Storage Diagram produces an excellent diagram - but it shows the partition name and labels it as OS400. Rather out of date
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    HMC V10R2 - Configuration of the initial screen

    HMC V10R2M1040 came with the beautiful dashboard as the initial screen. Unfortunately not everyone likes to see the dashboard. Some of colleagues would like to see the list of the managed systems as the initial screen in HMC - same as with V10R2M1...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Certificate used on port 9920

    Port 9920:"Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years - cert of IBMNot options to used my or cut to short lifespan to 820 days.
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

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