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PowerVC

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Dynamically lock IP addresses for use with PowerVC

Want to reserve some IP addresses for use by PowerVC and some for use by SCE, but that can change over time.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Unable to create VM with less than .1 CPU in PowerVC

A client has the desire to create a VM with .05 CPU however PowerVC only seems to allow a minimum CPU size of .1 CPU per VM.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Improve the PowerVC Help Information Panel

Clicking the Help (?) Icon at the top of the PowerVC GUI causes paragraphs of text to appear which tell what PowerVC is and how to use it. At the bottom of this are links to YouTube Videos and other help. However, there is no easy way to scroll an...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 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...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PVC not savin "running" config to "startup" config after every zone change on Cisco SAN Switches to Preserve over restarts

PowerVC 1.4.4 Is out of sync on "startup" config on Cisco MDS switches with "Running" config. This may result in loosing the last saved zone changes and its configuration data upon loosing or restarting SAN switches due to various reasons. Support...
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Update POWERVC to add servers using AMS

PowerVC cannot manage a Linux server running that uses AMS (Active Memory Services).
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Approve mutliple requests at once (Self-Service Administrator)

Currently there does not seem to be a way to select and approve/deny multiple user requests at once. Each must be individually selected, approved and optionally responded to. There should be functionality to select via checkboxes all the approvals...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add ability to assign LPM and Host Evac permissions separately for non-Admin roles

As a large IT enterprise, we have Steady State / Operations Support 24/7. The Admin team for PowerVC is not a 24/7 operation. We need to be able to grant LPM capabilities (vm move) and Host Evacuation capabilities to the Build and Operations teams...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Use all IO groups when creating multiple vdisks

When creating multiple vdisks, I would like the ability to spread the disks across all IO groups in an SVC cluster.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 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 ...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

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