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Hardware Management Console

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    Add option to save expanded column width on All Systems.

    It would be nice to be able to expand the All Systems column to fit the space required to see the full name of the frame and save it. This is also important for various size monitors. Apparently the save user preferences does not save this setting.
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    POWER mashine system location sync for HMC

    in the HMC for POWER machine it is possible to define a "System location" under general setting in the machine profile, unfortunately this field is not synced between the HMCs in case of a redundant environment. Please sync the "System location" b...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    HMC Call home Function alert related to FQDN

    Hello Team, Currently, our HMC has been configured with callhome feature and we do receive alerts whenever there is an issue/event generated within HMC for any partitions. So, we need your help on the below.Whenever the event generates, it should ...
    over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    confusing behavior of LPM during inspections max_xfer_size

    confusing behavior of LPM during inspections max_xfer_size : I can create on system "A" lpar "X" (and run it) with max_xfer_size larger (on NPIV virtual FC adapter) then used by respective vios on physical FC adapter I can move this lpar by LPM to...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Customer able to change default behaviour for LPAR's at restart (kernel dump, reboot behaviour, and startup profiles, for example)

    In order to enhance the possibilities of tracing the origin of errors when something in the kernel (or a piece of software) seems to hang, it would be beneficial to be able to change the default behaviour for restarting an LPAR to "dump" - this co...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Put Physical Optical Devices back in HMC GUI

    In using only 1 DVD or RDX on POWER10 Servers, HMC Code V10R3M1060 and above left out the ability to See and manage Physical Optical from Virtual Storage Management. Systems with large number of LPAR's are sharing 1 DVD or RDX successfully until 1...
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Return the Utility CoD Processor Capacity Setting - Unreported processor minutes.

    When using Utility CoD processors it is important to know how may minutes have been used.
    about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    HMC - PEP XML Preview

    We use Power Enterprise Pools extensively. We have found that the XML provided by IBM after a resource purchase is not always correct and adversely affects our running POWER servers.
    almost 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    Add command for displaying the hardware where a defined VM runs.

    Ease of management, example when deleting a VM cli-wise it removes several steps (or the need for additional scripting to check all hw and find the lpar). Here also would be beneficial to present all VMs with the same name, to secure removal but a...
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Future consideration

    TS002037047

    HMC Test Call home is not a complete testWhen doing a test call home against the HMC a Problem number gets created and then a PMH should be supplied by the support center. The problems we are seeing is when no PMH is returned this are no alerts le...
    almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

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