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PowerVC

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Enhance POWERVC zoning to allow different group of ports to be zoned per VM HBA port.

Today, POWERVC 1.3.3.1 is able to blacklist SVC ports and then determine which ports of SVC should be zoned to VM HBA ports. However, with the use of "Use all available WWPNs for attachment:" all VM ports connected to each fabric will be zoned to ...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Add whitelist support for discovered storage port

PowerVC support for "whitelist" port management of discovered storage
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC capability to restore previous backup to later version

PowerVC has the capability of restoring from backup. This request is that we be able to restore from a previous backup in the event that we upgrade or reinstall product.
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Support custom io group names for SVC

If the customer configured their SVC IO groups other than the default, PowerVC will fail to provision. This is due to hard-coded values in the PowerVC Cinder Driver Code.
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Specify IP range in deploy templates

When defining deploy templates for self service usage. While we can specify a network to use, we cannot limit deployment to a range of IP addresses within the network. The reason we need this is because currently multiple projects can be configure...
about 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Set Virtual Machine Name by DNS lookup on IP address chosen

On an image deploy you have to enter a virtual machine name and then either enter in an IP or have it select from the pool. There is no link to my DNS servers to create an A entry for that name. Also, I want to have a list of predefined names that...
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Deploy LPAR with a hostname different than the LPAR name

today the hostname inside the lpar is the same as the lpar name specified at deployment.It would be interesting to choose a different hostname like you can choose an ip address
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC can not manage existing VMs with XIV storage

PowerVC can not manage existing VMs with XIV storage; however can create new vms in PowerVC and manage them using XIV storage.
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

assigning another boot disk then remove the old one

The thing is that volume, in the VM, has been alt_disk_copy to another volume. Now the VM is booted on the new volume, so I don't need the old one anymore.Normally, in a powervm Environnement, I assign a new disk, alt_disk_copy to it, then remove ...
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add support for VMAX thin provision with overcommitted storage

VMAX supports thin provisioning whch allows a storage pool to be "over commited" allowing reported USAGE to be above 100% PowerVC will report storage recreate failure above 100% reported even if not used.
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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