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PowerVC

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Give Shared Disk support for PowerHA Deployment

PowerVC should be able to create shared disks so we can introduce IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX which a share disk is mandatory.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Console Access per VM via Horizon GIU

Drop-down menu behind an individual VM on the Instances Panel in CMO shows a number of actions possible for that VM, two of them being Console Access and Console Log.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Attached Storage: Extend Storage without detaching it from running VM

Attached Storage: Extend Storage without detaching it from running VM Currently, customer/user needs to detach storage from VM first before a Volume can be extended.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

Provision to input IP address and name for the >1 VM deployment

On the VM deployment page, for the >1 VM deployment, as you aware we can not enter IP address explicitly and PowerVC picks address from the IP pool. This would perfectly wrok with new environemt. For the existing environment, some of the IPs ha...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add a provision to delete attached volumes in VM deletion process

We use PowerVC version 1.2.2.2. With current level of PowerVC, VM deletion process does not delete additionally attached volumes to VM. User needs to separately delete those extra data volumes. Request to add a provision to optionally choose to de...
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Dynamically lock IP addresses for use with PowerVC

Want to reserve some IP addresses for use by PowerVC and some for use by SCE, but that can change over time.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Unable to create VM with less than .1 CPU in PowerVC

A client has the desire to create a VM with .05 CPU however PowerVC only seems to allow a minimum CPU size of .1 CPU per VM.
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

VM and captued Image editable comment field

Add to VM and Image a comment field that can be used at creation time and edited later.If it needs to be fixed length it needs to be generous, something like 256 or or 512 bytes.
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Support for Shared Processor Pools

From several PowerVC workshops I hear from customers that the support for Shared Processor Pools is a very important feature. Some customers they even can't start with that feature (to be license compliant).
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

PowerVC does not utilize multiple IO groups.

PowerVC is currently deploying ALL virtual machines with NPIV zoning only to V7000 IO Group 0. IO Group 1 is not be utilized for client connections.
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

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