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Hardware Management Console

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    PowerVC with 2 HMC

    Our customer "Etat de Geneve" many Power systems with PowerVC and dual HMC. In powerVC, one have the possibility to connect a host with 2 HMCs, one being primary, the other being secondary. To improve performance, one can load-balance the connecti...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Add GUI options for LU functions in Shared Storage Pool

    Today there is not a GUI option to handle snapshots of logical volumes / disks in Shared Storage Pool.
    6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Fibre Channel Port Label

    The should be unification between labels set with the labelvios command for FC ports and the VIO FC device attribute setting.
    7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    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 ...
    about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Fast switch between VIOSes in GUI

    When you inspect or change the configuration of one VIOS on the managed system, you usually want to repeat the same on the second VIOS. To achieve it, if GUI is now in one of the VIOS properties, the administrator must select first the managed sys...
    7 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    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

    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

    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

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