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PowerVC

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Allow PowerVC to attach storage volumes to specific fiber adapters.

Currently, PowerVC attaches all Storage volumes to all fiber adapters allocated to the virtual machine. We would like the ability to attach storage volumes to specific fiber adapters allocated to the virtual machine.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC Fibre Channel Ports

The ability to choose and edit Fibre Channel Ports on the Storage Unit Side as current channels are getting filled up using Hitachi G1000.TS001351789
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

PowerVC Login Interface Project Selection

PowerVC web interface offers no choice as to which Project is being logged into. It tries to store a client-side cookie to determine the last Project accessed and uses that cookie, or if missing, the last(?) instance from an unsorted(?) list of in...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Disk check based on Lun ID rather than its name

Storwize driver behaviour is based on lun names. I think it would be better to be based on Lun ID, which are unique, unlike the Lun Names, which are easily modified.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC support for Hitachi Storage HDT RT pool type

Hitachi storage supports HDT type pools with a subtype of RT , which supports flash storage.PowerVC does not support this type of HDT pool.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

RFE - PowerVC support for Hitachi RT storage Pool

PowerVC support for Hitachi RT storage Pool
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

RFE-? PowerVC support for Hitachi Global Active device volumes

PowerVC support for Hitachi Global Active device volumes
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

PowerVC does not utilize multiple IO groups.

PowerVC is currently deploying ALL virtual machines with NPIV zoning only to V7000 IO Group 0. IO Group 1 is not be utilized for client connections.
about 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN

For the storage template of the SVC (storwize) the client needs to enable the option "Accessible I/O Groups:" to offer greater availability in the SVC configuration for the provisioned LUN of the storage template. We know that there is the advance...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Dynamic Storage QoS

Product: PowerVC PowerVC can integrate fabric and storage to PowerVM infrastructure to facilitate virtualization management. Current approach to configure quality of service for storage do not consider the capacity of storage space thus leading to...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered