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PowerVC

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Within PowerVC restore original lpar distribution after LPM Evacuation or SRR event

PowerVC provides the simple ability to initiate an one-click evacuation of a managed system and in addition a way to initiate a simplified remote restart operation for a group of or specific lpars after a managed system crash. But there is no way ...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Add Active Memory sharing support to PowerVC

Customers running MME class Power Systems may have Active memory sharing enabled on the host, PowerVC would need to be enhanced to allow support of these hosts.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

HA for PowerVC Control Plane

PowerVC manager is a single point of failure for providers of IaaS components to end users. While workload isn't impacted if PowerVC manager is offline, the ability to interact with the infrastructure is impacted. Please add a level of resiliency ...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Integrate Pure Storage Cinder driver into PowerVC

Please integrate the Pure Storage Cinder driver into PowerVC. Pure Storage is a core Cinder team member and has had in-tree Cinder drivers in OpenStack since the Juno release.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Image sharing between projects

Enable support for "public" or "shared" images to enable service providers or multi-tenant enterprise consumers to easily reuse PowerVC images.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Enhance POWERVC zoning to allow different group of ports to be zoned per VM HBA port.

Today, POWERVC 1.3.3.1 is able to blacklist SVC ports and then determine which ports of SVC should be zoned to VM HBA ports. However, with the use of "Use all available WWPNs for attachment:" all VM ports connected to each fabric will be zoned to ...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

PowerVC Self-service VM deploy scheduling

PowerVC is being deployed in a leading Bank in India. Customer wants VMs to be created at a certain time of the day as per bank's process. Currently, VM gets created immediately after selfservice request is approved. Customer wants an option to sp...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Enhance Zoning Algorithm in PowerVC to prevent ISL hops

This enhancement is based on using PowerVC 1.3.3 in our environment that uses PowerVM, dual VIOS (each with a Fibre Channel Port to Fabric A and B), Cisco FC Switches (multiple switches with ISL between) and IBM SVC clustered storage subsystem. Cu...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 4 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.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC - Enhance RMC failure tolerance and failure handling ability

PowerVC sets VMs into "Error" state upon HMC/VIOS RMC connection failures from which they have to be recovered manually. Even if using the "Refresh" button the VMs stay in error state if they have been moved off to another host by a PowerVC LPM op...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

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