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Hardware Management Console

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    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

    Emergency pedbg package

    Since the pedbg package it growing with the new HMC versions and with new features it can be up to 7 GB file size. When a customer is having a managed system or partition issue that affects his production, there is no need for information that is ...
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    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
    about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Option to have 'key:value' pair tags in Power HMC.

    HMC V10R3 allows to define LPAR description and group tags, but it is not possible to create the tags in the 'key:value' format. This is a standard format on other platforms and already adopted on IBM Cloud. There are several modernization, monito...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

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

    HMC GUI Limitation

    When we are using multiple Vswitches in the POWER H/W frames, HMC GUI is not detecting any Vswitch other than the Default Vswitch "ETHERNET0”(During the LPM activity ) . This issue creates lot of problems if we use HMC GUI for the LPM activities. ...
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    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...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Enhance the 5250 console support provided by the HMC (remote) to support 132-column display.

    For a limited function IBM i LPAR (such as an FSFC target) where, for security reasons the only advisable interactive connection is via an HMC console, having a 132 column screen would provide an immeasurable benefit in viewing 132 position spoole...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

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