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PowerVC

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Refresh storage information on remanage of VM

Currently, not all storage operations can be performed through PowerVC. If changes have been made to storage outside of PowerVC there is no way to resync data such as the volume sizes. When managing a VM that had previously existed in PowerVC, att...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Resize multiple volumes using 1 request

PowerVC allows Volume resize, today each volume must be resized one at a time. ideally, PowerVC would allow selection of multiple volumes and resize to a size larger than the largest existing volume. Example. Volume 1 is 200 GB VOlume 2 is 100 GB ...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

UI Enhancement - add ability to shutdown / reboot PVC from GUI

It would be nice if the PVC GUI would offer the ability to shutdown / reboot PVC itself similar to the HMC.
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - versioning of instances

PowerVC provides Snapshot to capture disk of a vm or instance. This information does not include vm details (cpu memory network etc)Capturing an image of a vm would include all data, but this feature doesn't provide a way to tie that image as a "b...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Add api support for all Project QUOTA

Customer would like to be able to check quota limits PRIOR to performing an action. Example: The backup volume and backup volumes quota values can restrict if a backup is allowed. The backup can be performed via REST API, but the quota cannot be c...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Copy / paste does not work in noVNC session for IBM i console in the IBM Cloud

In other IBM i emulators (PCOMM, iAccess) the user is able to copy text out of and paste onto the command line within the session. The text is available on the users workstation (Windows, MAC). This allows copying/pasting text out of / onto the co...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Virtual Machine Overview should have SRC filed to show current status codes

When deploying a server if the instance fail to find boot source no error is reported back to the gui. Having the SRC codes show in the PowerVC GUI will allow users to see failed boots and also follow status changes.
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC to support AD nested gropus

Customer would like to be able to use AD nested group with PowerVC
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Feature to add comments on maintenance mode , displayed in the hosts tab

We are many to work on PowerVC , including IBM workers who need to operate on hosts for upgrade purposes or replacing parts. Sometimes we need to act on hosts but we see that it is in maintenance, but we don't know who put it in this mode, or even...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Multiple tiers to be supported within shared storage pool

When starting to implement PowerVC and are using SSPs. In the PowerVC Env Checker, is seen the following errors for multiple SSP pools: Shared Storage Pool ValidationsCould not access the shared storage pool in cluster tier.HMC_CLUSTER_SSP_CONFIGU...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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