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PowerVC

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Adding numbers of IP Adresses for a pool not only a range

In Powervc for a VLAN Network i can add a range of Ip addressesbut not always in a segment all adresses available are consecutive so i need a chance to add a number of IP Adresses e.g. seperated by comma or whatever or to upload from a text file e...
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC needs to handle VM state automatically after LPM

All VMs were in Active state I did migration of client LPARs for CEC H/W upgrade using HMC, after LPM, LPARs were in error state, I agree this part After H/W upgrade, moved all LPARs back to the system and those LPARs still in error state. not cha...
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Give Shared Disk support for PowerHA Deployment

PowerVC should be able to create shared disks so we can introduce IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX which a share disk is mandatory.
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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

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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