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My votes: PowerVC

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Additional Virtual Fiber Channel Cards

Individual virtual fiber channel cards, which are created per LPAR by PowerVC, can only support 32 or 64 LUNs (depending on the OS type/version). We often have machines that require hundreds of LUNs and it is very frustrating that we cannot do thi...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Set null value in imageRef when using DynamicFlavors

When the SAN is managed by other teams, you can set a null value in imageRef when using DynamicFlavors. SAN team propose an API to create remotly disks, so use it to deploy AIX.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 5 Delivered

PowerVC to map initiators with DS8884 HA ports across I/O enclosures to achieve high availability & load balancing

Current Situation:Customer is using PowerVC 1.3.2 to enable cloud based infrastructure. Customer is using Power8 E880 servers & DS8884 storage system which is integrated with PowerVC. While deploying new VM, PowerVC maps each initiator with a ...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC - Image import/export should use POWER compression engine

In a hybrid cloud world more and more images (OVAs) will be created and exchanged between multiple PowerVC instances or with a public cloud.As the compression of this large images takes some time, it would be good to shorten the time by using the ...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Need description field in Storage Template

In PowerVC there is no field for adding a description for a storage template e.g. Quality desciptorc etc.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

DRO ability to monitor resources on both CPU AND Memory

It would be nice to have the ability to choose both the CPU and Memory when monitoring resources.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Add SVC port selection used by PowerVC for zoning

Expand "Storage Connectivity group" or "Zoning Policy" (wherever is more appropriate) configuration details and granularity around Target Storage. Today PowerVC connects to the SVC cluster via it's service account, collects the nodes' fabric (FC) ...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

add restart with dump feature from PowerVC

It is possible to start and stop LPARs from PowerVC. But this feature allows only "graceful" shutdown of system. It doesn't allow both hard shutdown/reboot or shutdown with dump.
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Need DRP/FlashCore compress volume support

My customer has FS9110 and V5030E connected to Power E880 and E950. Both Power Systems are managed by PowerVC. But PowerVC cannot create FlashCore compressed volume on FS9100.Also, PowerVC cannot create a compress volume in DRP pool of V5030E.SVC ...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

vNIC backend deployment control

Todays networking standard on IBM PowerVM is moving towards the use of vNIC but today we lack the support to control how the SR-IOV and vNIC infrastructure is deployed using PowerVC. Today we have deployed 2 pair of VIO (4 vios) server where each ...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered