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Hardware Management Console

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Nutanix image for virtual HMC

We are looking into Nutanix as a new virtualization platform. IBM does not provide a virtual hmc package for Nutanix. Nutanix is a growing platform and other customers will probably also ask for this in the future.
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

Offer an HMC base image with the latest Servce Pack

When deploying multiple HMC's it is a time-consuming process to install the base version and apply all service packs and requisite fixes to get on the latest supported fix level (particularly on V9R1 to get to 9.4.2). It would be nice to have the ...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Add a tree view option to the Systems page.

It would be useful to see which partitions were on which physical machine/serial number in one view. Older versions of the HMC had this view and it would be nice if V10 had it without having to switch to the old dashboard.
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

updlic align I/O capability of UI to CLI

A.updlic extend with meaningful functionsi.e. for explicit FW download against pci card like UI already have implemented.updlic -m MS -o a -t io -l latest -p Partition-ID -s SLOT-l latest -r diskB.updlic extend with meaningful message for pending ...
about 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

VIO LPM SAN and Network Virtualization Assignment

Currently on the larger hardware like 880/980s we are running 4 VIOs, for restricted/nonrestricted VMs. When VMs are LPMed from one frame to another the network and SAN virtual connections aren't always assigned to the same VIO pairing. This can l...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

FIDO2 U2F Support as additional MFA options (without PowerSC)

Easys to use. HMC UI /CLI login based on multi-factor and passwordless authentication without the overpowering PowerSC.
over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Under review

Allow user-configurable resolution in PCM graphs (up/downsampling control)

Currently, the Performance and Capacity Monitoring (PCM) graphs on HMC automatically determine the X-axis resolution based on the selected time interval. This often limits visibility into the granularity of metrics unless a very short time window ...
7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

HMC V10R2 - Configuration of the initial screen

HMC V10R2M1040 came with the beautiful dashboard as the initial screen. Unfortunately not everyone likes to see the dashboard. Some of colleagues would like to see the list of the managed systems as the initial screen in HMC - same as with V10R2M1...
over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

HMC Drift Management

Need a solution to compare, report and action HMC configuration drift.
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

RAID Rebuild Status on HMC

After a defective disk has been replaced, the HMC user cannot see the status or progress of the RAID rebuilt. Only "lshmc -h" is available, to see the following status "degraded | n/a | enabled".However, this is essential for the further use of th...
almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release