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Hardware Management Console

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    HMC V9 GUI Physical IO adapters firmware level display field

    Currently with HMC V9 GUI, there is no way to display Physical IO adapters firmware levels, This can be added as an additional filed view under the server Physical IO adapters View.
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

    HMC: Show partial processors

    All Systems, RACK3,PartitionsTable View I clicked the icon off to the right to add Processor Allocated. However it only shows full processor allocations. Most of my lpars are subprocessor.I tried to use the export to export this list to a CSV but ...
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Is a defect

    DLPAR "move" adapter option in Enhanced HMC GUI

    System: Enhanced HMC GUIActor: DLPAR physical adapter Desc: DLPAR is used to dynamically move a physical adapter from one LPAR to another. In the Classic GUI, this option could be initiated from the current LPAR that the adapter was allocated to, ...
    over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    VMTools installed in Virtual HMC

    Now that Virtual HMC is supported to install in VMware environments it would be very nice if the installer came with VMTools or if there were some way to install VMTools on the Virtual HMC VM. These tools help with issues when accessing the VM dir...
    about 9 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

    Add a System Location column to HMC table view

    Currently, the HMC table view lists managed systems with many details such as system name, type, serial number, and state etc. However, it lacks a dedicated “System Location” column. This RFE proposes adding a “System Location” field to the HMC ta...
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Submitted

    go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

    When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
    9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    centralized I/O Code Repository similar to the HMC repository for system firmware is required.

    For system firmware, I can download the firmware via the internet to the local HMC repository once and use it for further system updates of other systems. This way, I always have the latest firmware available. With I/O, I don’t have this option. L...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    HMC LPAR configuration CPU/Memory allocation checker and advisor

    Would be great HMC will be doing checks in case there is configuration attempt not following best practices according NUMA architecture or ratio between EC vs vCPU. Check ratio between CPU / Memory according SRAD best practice. In case will be pos...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Add os license expiration as an optional column on list of partitions on the HMC

    Add OS_license_expiration as an optional column available on the HMC list of partitions. See this link https://imgur.com/gEpL1ZO
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Partition Virtual Storage Diagram - update label from OS400 to IBM i

    The Partition Virtual Storage Diagram produces an excellent diagram - but it shows the partition name and labels it as OS400. Rather out of date
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

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