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PowerVC - Enhance RMC failure tolerance and failure handling ability

PowerVC sets VMs into "Error" state upon HMC/VIOS RMC connection failures from which they have to be recovered manually. Even if using the "Refresh" button the VMs stay in error state if they have been moved off to another host by a PowerVC LPM op...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

PowerVC - Customize the LPAR name, LUN's names and Storage Zoning names.

We have PowerVC setup to do storage provisioning and the PowerVC created LPAR, LUN's and Zoning names are currently not set as per our company standards.
almost 8 years ago in PowerVC 7 Delivered

PowerVC support for attaching FC tape drives via NPIV

PowerVM LPARs use NPIV to access FC Tape drives/libraries connected to SAN. Moreover most of the customers use separate FC adapters to keep tape and disk I/O separate. Currently, in PowerVC there is no way to achieve this.
over 7 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Dynamically add PowerVC created LPAR to the HMC user resource role

Dynamically add PowerVC created LPARs to the HMC users resource role (if it is existing for the user). When the HMC is the platform manager for Power Systems, and PowerVC is connected to the HMC, PowerVC will have the same permissions to perform o...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Enable OpenStack / PowerVC to do a snapshot restore

IBM should try to force OpenStack board to consider and define a snapshot restore API call within cinder module; subsequent there should be an implementation within IBM's cinder software as a part of PowerVC to support that function by SVC / storw...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC should allow you to change availability priority

PowerVC allows you to set an "availability priority" when deploying, but it does not allow you to change it afterwards. Since it is used to determine start-up sequence for remote restart, when the LPAR mix changes, you should be able to modify it ...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Support for Data Reduction Pools

We would like PowerVC to support data reduction pools.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Retype (migrate) volume between mirrored storage templates (different pools, same storage provider)

Problem: If you have a mirrored volume in PowerVC (Storage-Template-A) and you have to retype (migrate) this to also mirroed Storage-Template-B for any reason, this didn't work/isn't supported. Most customers, which do have a SVC, are using mir...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Avoiding HMC User HSCROOT for PowerVC

Create a user at HMC with least privileges to connect PowerVC to HMC
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Message - Add data to show the user that performed the action

Within the messages screen in PowerVC, it would be nice to see the user that performed the action. For example creating a VM or adding a Volume to a VM. This could be either in that column or just meta data when you highlight a row.
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

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