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PowerVC

Enable scheduling automatic Backup via PowerVC Web UI

Taking automatic Backups of PowerVC ensures that in worst-case szenarios the Company is able to redeploy PowerVC with minimal time & reconfiguration effort. In previous Versions admins had the functionality to configure automatic backup schedu...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

Policy-based High Availability (HA) support in PowerVC

Policy-based High Availability (HA) provides a solution for two Storage Systems in different locations where the storage will automatically remain accessible to hosts if there is an event that impacts the infrastructure and makes one of the system...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration

PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
5 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC with PeerZoning/Smart Zoning

A new type of storage zoning is peerzoning or smartzoning. This method is clearer and more practical to handle. e.g. debugging etc.
over 2 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Let PowerVC help with Capacity Management at DR

When a customer has configured their systems and has selected important partitions with "automated remote restart", they will be started on another physical server when the original server fails. In our situation we run POWER systems on two datace...
22 days ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC virtual appliance DLPAR and LPM support

The appliance is running on Power .Please enable DLPAR and LPM support including the required software and configs in the Operating System build
3 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC running EOL MariaDB 10.5 embedded database

Current PowerVC levels 2.2 and 2.3 both are running at MariaDB version 10.5 which is EOL as of 16th July 2025 Please add latest version of the MariaDB to PowerVC versions 2.2 and 2.3
3 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

Add support to update PowerVC Fabric managed keys in the Appliance

PowerVC Fabric certificate replacement may require copying certifates into the trust store as well as manually copying to the PowerVC opt folders
about 2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

Preferred node support for IBM SVC stretched cluster / PBHA

In a IBM (enhanced) stretched cluster or a PBHA (Hyperswap) implementation, it is necessary that the preferred node of a LUN is on the same site then the VM is running. Otherwise every IO has to go twice over the ISL's, because the multipath drive...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Tape devices not to block VM Snapshot functions.

Currently a VM snapshot cannot be created when a FC tape device is attached to the VM. FC tape device volumes do not support snapshots, which makes sense as there is no way to snapshot a tape device. This though, has the effect of blocking snapsho...
3 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

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