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PowerVC

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iSCSI support (over VIOS) for PowerVC

Some customer are going away from FibreChannel. For these customers we should of an alternative connection to the storage, such as iSCSI.The new VIOS version 3 now supports iSCSI connections and can virtualize that storage into the client VM.Power...
about 5 years 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
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

single QR code or a centralized MFA configuration - All PVC Servers

At the customer environment, there are currently 17 PVC Applications in use. As part of the security enhancement plan, we are in the process of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all these applications. As per the current understan...
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - Better Image Handling and Deployment

The generic x86 ( or ANY ) deployment of PowerVC needs better image handling and deployment. It is unacceptable that you must maintain an image on each and every storage array for every PowerVC instance.
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

powervc 2.0.3 without high availabity addon

You can only install powervc single node with available extension cost $399. I want to install powervc 2.0.3 on a single node not a high available cluster environment for test purposes etc . there for i have to enabel the high available extension ...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Load balancing to Multiple IO Groups when creating/attaching Storage for a VM using SVC's

Hi We have 2 x Initiator Port Groups [ Each with 4 ports coming from dual SAN Fabrics via a Pair of VIO Servers] and 16 x Target SVC Stroage Port groups [ 4 ports with vWWNs in SVC where 2 ports from Fabric A and other two from Fabric B ]. If we t...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Volume Storage per VM

In the Virtual Machines page, the CPU & Memory allocations are displayed for each VM, it would be a useful addition to also include how much Storage (disk) space is allocated to each VM in this page.
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Support new version of IBM Flash Systems Hyperswap

Support new version of IBM Flash Systems Hyperswap
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

authentication both OS and LDAP at same time

it would be great and useful to add the capability of authenticate both ways using ldap and also SO based in case of my LDAP user gets locked or, let's say an AD problem...the solution right now is to re configure to OS (losing any actual config o...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Add Operating System column to the Virtual Machines view

It would sometimes be of great help to filter out VMs by Operating system.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration