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PowerVC

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    Request for new feature in PowerVc

    When moving a host into maintenance mode and choosing to leave the VMs on the host, the Operator should be warned if there are any "in flight" operations on any VM on the host , Any LPAR deploy, LPAR resize or LPAR LPM, that might be in progress m...
    about 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Eliminate use of SUDO for root user

    Currently, the powervc-diag utility requires that the user root be configured to use sudo. This creates a security issue that violates the customer security standards and frankly, the root user should never need sudo. Disabling root from using sud...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Add option in Storage Template to define Mirror Sync Rate for Storvize products

    Since a couple of PowerVC versions we are able to define the Flash Copy Rate in the Storage Template. If a customer wants to use vdisk mirror feature of Storvize products, the Mirror Sync Rate comes into place. It defines how "fast" the mirror is ...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Delete/Drop VM without deleting/dropping any LUN/Volume

    Today, when I delete a VM, I have to choose at least one boot volume to delete. I would like to have the option of deleting a VM while keeping ALL of its volumes in storage, just the volumes. The other settings, such as storage host, SAN zoning, V...
    over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Granular Roles definition for PowerVC local users

    Please implement a more granular role definition system for PowerVC local user accounts, for example; 'Snapshot Manager' Role that is able to Perform tasks like Snapshot Creation and Deletion, Read Volumes.
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Need to fix the CPU utilization graph

    Issue: CPU utilization graph is not matching to other tools example lpr2rrd1. CPU utilization graph scale representation is in %, whereas other performance tools representing in core base. Please change accordingly.2. The average CPU utilization g...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Specify the boot device order for the operating system volumes when deploying a VM with a mirrored image using PowerVC.

    <idea> Specify the boot device order for the operating system volumes when deploying a VM with a mirrored image using PowerVC. <background> Some customers may require the specific storage pool to be set as hdisk0. However, when deployi...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    PowerVC

    After having followed support recommendations about how to tell PowerVC to use the new wwpn brought by the new svc controllers, it appears that PowerVC is able to use only one wwpn (thus a port). This is unacceptable for me because that means all ...
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Functionality already exists

    Threshold for Integrated Storages which are already 95% fileld up

    Major Bank in India would want to define threshold on their already filled up storages to 95% which are part of PowerVC so that noone allocates Volumes from those storages but as it will be required for management of Hosts and VMs , we will have t...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Support importing OVA files created by aix command "create_ova"

    From development we have got information: "the OVA created by PowerVC has a different set of properties. So the one created using AIX command will not work here". Make it possible to import also OVA created from aix command "create_ova".
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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