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PowerVC

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Add Operating System column to the Virtual Machines view

It would sometimes be of great help to filter out VMs by Operating system.
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Change view e permissione for role "VIEWER"

We operate as an ICP for several of our Power Systems client. As we explore the different cloud users' roles in PowerVC, we realize the Viewer user role is the one that fits as the most except for one thing. It is missing the 'resource usage' view...
5 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Allow PowerVC to use LDAP users from OS

We would like to be able to use a LDAP user configured at OS level to connect to PowerVC and not configure PowerVC to use LDAP Server.
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 0 Future consideration

SSH Key capability with HMC and Brocade Switches

SSH Key capability with HMCs and Brocade switches from the GUI which is available on SVC only currently.
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Support importing OVA files created by aix command "create_ova"

From development we have got information: "the OVA created by PowerVC has a different set of properties. So the one created using AIX command will not work here". Make it possible to import also OVA created from aix command "create_ova".
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Image snapshot support for SDS environments in PowerVC

PowerVC is the OpenStack implemetation for POWER servers. In new versions PowerVC can be installed as SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) edition.The storage part of the SDI is implemented with Spectrum Scale 5.x which is shipped with PowerVC.Po...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Request for new feature in PowerVc

When moving a host into maintenance mode and choosing to leave the VMs on the host, the Operator should be warned if there are any "in flight" operations on any VM on the host , Any LPAR deploy, LPAR resize or LPAR LPM, that might be in progress m...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - LPM support of specific VLAN's managed out of the SEA

PowerVC support of LPM on PowerHA nodes partitions where the specific VLAN 3358 are not managed on the SEA (case TS002261609).
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

cascading storage groups for EMC/Dell storage should be an option, not forced.

Sometime back IBM changed PowerVC to force cascading storage groups which caused extreme difficulty to the point of making PowerVC unusable in our EMC Storage array environment. Even after redommissioning PowerVC (with regret), we were migrating 5...
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 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 ...
about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Functionality already exists

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