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Hardware Management Console

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lpardbg - Add data collection for LPARS running AIX

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to be able to collect data from LPARS with AIX as OS as well. Documentation of lpardbg: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power10?topic=commands-lpardbg
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

lpardbg - Add data transfer to IBM over configured proxy

lpardbg is a great new feature to collect snap-data from VIOS via HMC, but it would be nice to transfer the collected data via Proxy to IBM. This is already possible for the command pedbg and the proxy from the call-home configuration is used here...
about 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Frame P8 support on HMC V11

Many customers still have P8 frames in service because it's the latest version supporting AIX 5.3. Lot of infrastructures have P8 and P10 frames connected to the same HMC. The refusal to support P8 frames requires segmenting the management of the...
3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Not under consideration

HMC virtual console, increase the terminal windows rows

When doing installations and I want to save the output, todays virtual console is not saving enough rows.In normal situations one of course use a terminal session to the virtual server but when working with network or as an active work viosupgrade...
12 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted
144 VOTE

Dynamically editable min/max fields when LPAR gets shut down

When you are on a partitions memory configuration section and the partition is running you can only change the allocated value and the min/max values are greyed out. When the partition is then shut down the min/max values should be editable but th...
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 3 Future consideration
124 VOTE

HMC Performance Dashboard shows different calculated graphs depending if the LPAR is in Shared-Pool and Dedicated Mode

At the moment the HMC Performance Dashboard is using a different calculation method - depending on the LPAR using Shared-Pool or Dedicated-Donating Mode - to display the CPU utilization graph without any hint of these differences. Both graphs are ...
almost 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

The x86 image should also be provided for Nutanix, as more customers migrate from VMWare to Nutanix

Flexible IBM Power solutions for the customer
26 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Few confirmation screen before power off manage system

It has been observed a couple of times in the past that the managed server on the processors (i.e. the whole machine) has been powered off accidently since the enhanced version of the GUI was available. To avoid another accident in future can we h...
9 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems.

HMC’s, dashboard Flex capacity view for utilization for all defined Managed systems. This enhancement will provide a customer with the current status of the flex capacity utilization, which will make managing and decision making of moving capacity...
about 1 month ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow Simplified HMC based Remote Restart to recreate LPAR on target system even with reduced paths to the LUN

Simplified HMC based Remote Restart is currently not successful if the check on the target system results in a reduced number of paths to the LUN. This is the case with a HyperSwap configuration in the event of a data center failure (storage and s...
over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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