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Hardware Management Console

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    Ability to download and generate HMC logs from the GUI

    It would be useful to both have the ability to generate and download HMC system logs from the HMC GUI rather than resorting to the CLI when troubleshooting an issue with IBM. Also the ability to see logs in /tmp so these can be cleaned up by the u...
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration

    Sharing of VIOS Upgrade/Update ISO files between HMCs

    Dear Sirs, we used the HMC to download and update the VIOS partitons on our Test-Site. Although we locally stored the ISO (on the HMC at the Test-Site), we were not able to transfer it to the HMC at the Production-Site. As we want to be sure to us...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    Enable encryption for HMC disks

    Our understanding is that HMC disk data may not be encrypted as on today. HMC disks are not encryption capable and there is no workaround either. Please enable the encryption capability on the HMC disks
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

    7063-CR1 BMC Console Redirection over HTML5

    On Power Based HMC 7063-CR1 BMC Console Redirection is only possible with Java. On x86 Based HMC 7042-CR9 IMM2 Console Redirection was possible with HTML5.
    almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Not under consideration

    Partitions overview - identify the shared processor and memory pools assigned to the LPAR

    Using multiple LPARS for testing ideas, then deactivating them, I am assigning LPARS to an "InactivePool" while they are powered off. I need to ensure that LPARs are all correctly assigned before activation to avoid license warnings and keep me le...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    HMC Storagevisualization should show mappings to SpectrumScale Storage Provider

    HMC Storage Visualization does not show vscsi mapping to SpectrumScale storage provider.The gui should be enhanced so that mappings will be shown in the GUI.
    over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    HMC DLPAR for unneeded/unwanted vhost adapters

    The HMC V9 no longer features DLPAR operations for deleting unneeded/unwanted vhosts,
    over 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Not under consideration

    HMC CLI command for custom groups management

    Currently (HMC V9R1 Service Pack 1) there is no option to manage custom groups from HMC CLI.
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    LPM CLI validate - choose highest speed pair for MSP.

    We had a case wherein using CLI LPM, we only chose a single MSP. LPM added a secondary MSP, but the MSP chosen was the 1gb mgmt interface of the VIO servers. this caused us problems, and is also not optimal. LPM should choose the fastest interface...
    almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    VIO Maintenance and Check modes in HMC

    Almost every customer, I've seen in the field, has some sort of scripts to check status of paths on the client LPARs and SEAs on VIO, and switch them off during maintenance (e.g. VIOS update). The usual way, a customer does VIO maintenance, is:1. ...
    over 8 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Planned for future release

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