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PowerVC and SRIOV vNIC improvements for high availability

Currently when PowerVC identify two SRIOV adapter for vNIC(Primary/Backup), it only consider slot/adapter and port. Because of that it picks up the adapters from same CEC which is not the best practice to have high availability for system with mul...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC adding tape fiberchannel adapter wwpn in host configuration on storage

When PowerVC attaches virtual fiber channel adapters to a vm that connect to a dedicated fabric to tape, PowerVC add the wwpns from theses adapters to the host storage definition in SVC/Storwize. Since these wwpns will never be used to access disk...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Description column in Virtual Machines page

It would be really nice if you could add a column in the Virtual Machines pages, so we can see the description of the virtual machine. Maybe a generic column builder, so we are able to build our own pages.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Supply an option to create 1 zone per fabric

Cisco switches have limited storage for zoning. Even when using the initiator zoning mode of PowerVC, too many zones are created. Create another mode to further reduce the zoning to 1 zone per fabric containing all initiators and targets.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC Liveupdate support for Hitachi

Executing an AIX OS Liveupdate function through PowerVC using Hitachi storage is not working. See IBM support comments below. "After completing our investigation we have determined the issue is caused because PowerVC does not report the volume_wwn...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Allow multiple LUNs to be unmanaged

When unmanaging LUNs in PowerVC we are only allowed to unmanage an indidual LUN as multiples cannot be selected.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

customizable columns in the viewing panels

Adding the ability to change/add/remove columns in the GUI. Look at the SVC GUI, it does that just fine ! In addition, it would be nice to be able to save the configuration of the columns, to multiple "profiles" (default, myview, mybeautifuldetail...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

New column to Storage view

Currently the Storage view shows only Available capacity on the Storage (see attached screenshot). However, when you are using Thin provisioning (which is nearly always nowadays) , it would be valuable to see also the total Allocated capacity.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Provide option in Compute Template to enable performance collection

Currently, we enable performance collection on the HMC on each lpar to send data to Nmon. There is no option in the Compute template in PowerVC to do so which means we have to go in to the hmc manually after the lpar is provisioned to check the "e...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC installation issues

When installing PowerVC the customer found several issues: 1. user/group checkIn the prereq script ($INSTALL_DIR/lib/prereq.sh line 355 following) there is hard coded information for user IDs and groups which is not customizable and causes the ins...
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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