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PowerVC - Customize the LPAR name, LUN's names and Storage Zoning names.

We have PowerVC setup to do storage provisioning and the PowerVC created LPAR, LUN's and Zoning names are currently not set as per our company standards.
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 7 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 ...
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC support for HMC 8.4 /VIOS 2.4

Customers would like to use PowerVC with HMC 8.4 and VIOS 2.4 which are the current releases of those products
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 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

PowerVC support for lun migration to different IO group

Customer would like to be able to migrate a LUN from one IO group to another, PowerVC supports multiple IO groups but not migrating between then
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC does not report real error message/cause

I was trying to add Host to PowerVC env, it failed multiple times with "PD-A001001 Could not access the Hardware Management Console for an unknown reason. Refer to the /var/log/nova/compute-9119MHE_108EF27.log file for more details." And at the en...
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Adding numbers of IP Adresses for a pool not only a range

In Powervc for a VLAN Network i can add a range of Ip addressesbut not always in a segment all adresses available are consecutive so i need a chance to add a number of IP Adresses e.g. seperated by comma or whatever or to upload from a text file e...
almost 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC: deployer can create a collocation rule

A user in the deployer group is unable to create a collocation rule.
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC needs to handle VM state automatically after LPM

All VMs were in Active state I did migration of client LPARs for CEC H/W upgrade using HMC, after LPM, LPARs were in error state, I agree this part After H/W upgrade, moved all LPARs back to the system and those LPARs still in error state. not cha...
about 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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