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PowerVC

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Package powervc like an appliance, either a hardware appliance akin to HMCs or containerize it.

We struggle to access root on RHEL instances as they are managed by another platform team. So if this were an appliance, we would have privileged access, as we would be platform owners.
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Validate storage for VM from a PowerVC view

We have some issues when storage is being removed before a decommission of VM has ben run from PowerVC ending up in the playbook failing since all storage tasks are failing. It would be of high interest that one from PowerVC could validate that wh...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Support Dell PowerStore Storage with PowerVC

Large UK Power client currently owns 13 x High End Power servers and wants to start using PowerVC on their estate. Their storage is Dell PowerStore which isn't currently supported.
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Setting cap/uncap for existing VM in PowerVC

Currently PowerVC allows setting cap/uncap mode via compute template before VM creation. There is no way to change this once the VM is created. The request is to allow cap/uncap to be changed after the VM is created.
about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Have an AIX version again, not just Linux

Linux and Linux root access is not always available to AIX community
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Powervc should warn the administrator about disruptive operations

In some cases powervc can initiate a disruptive change when performing a seemingly non invasive operation, such as adding a new volume. It performs the change in the background that can cause an outage of the VM, for example when zonemanager decid...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

remove the symbolic link from /var/www/html

a reminder that we would like the unix soft link removed. lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root /var/www/html/powervc -> /opt/ibm/powervc/ui
5 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Option to set mirror sync rate in PowerVC

For mirrored LUNs created through PowerVC in SVC, we are unable to automatically set the "Mirror Sync Rate".The default value of 2MiB/s is not fast enough. We would like to see an option in PowerVC to set the mirror sync rate for mirrored LUNs in ...
9 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add tags found in HMC frame and LPARs to PowerVC

By allowing PowerVC to utilize the tags created in the HMC it would provide a consistent tag "naming" standard across the two products and save time.
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Allow more or better control of users within embedded databases installed with PowerVC

We have a requirement to demonstrate control of all users. While we have a good handle on that generally, questions have been raised regarding the DB users within the embedded MariaDB and MongoDB implementations under PowerVC. So we would like to ...
10 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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