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PowerVC

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LPAR creation with SVC I/O round robin active

we use the following steps to create LPARs via REST API in PowerVC 2.0.1:1) Create needed volumes2) Create LPAR with already created volumes from previous step For the storage virtualisation we use SVC. The SVC is configured to use round-robin for...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

PowerVC use other group in place of "wheel"

Change PowerVC to support a group other than "wheel" for su privileges.
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

PowerVC

After having followed support recommendations about how to tell PowerVC to use the new wwpn brought by the new svc controllers, it appears that PowerVC is able to use only one wwpn (thus a port). This is unacceptable for me because that means all ...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Functionality already exists

Need PowerVC to allow the specification of "Hosting Partition" for VNIC

Looking to have PowerVC allow the specification of "Hosting Partition" for VNIC. We need to specify specific VIO Servers "Hosting Partitions" on the larger enterprise systems like 950/980 Machines. We separate CEC in our systems and have VIO serve...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

Customize PowerVC Logo in UI

Wish to have the ability to customize the PowerVC logo in the upper left of the UI.
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Randomly Generated Password for root/qsecofr accounts

Please add functionality to randomly generate a password for the root or QSECOFR account when deploying a template.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

powervc to hmc ssh pubkey authentication

Currently, connection from PowerVC to HMC console is defined using: IP address, username and password.I'd like that PowerVC authenticates on HMC console using SSH key pair.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

please add validation support for remote restart to hmc and pvc for future releases

currently neither PVC nor HMC offer any kind of validation for remote restart. So there is no way to know in advance if a frame goes down, remote restart is working. We are asking for a validation feature either in PVC or in HMC to make sure that ...
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Track who, when and what message was deleted for audit purposes

Currently there is no log available to audit if some one deleted one or all messages from PowerVC.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC HMC connection to use sshkey

The HMC connection should allow for ssh keys to stop relying on the hmc username and particularly password. As our HMC Password is meant to change once used. So using a public/private key after the first authentication is necessary.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

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