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PowerVC

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Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
8 months ago in PowerVC 1 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...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 1 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
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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
4 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Support for changing the name of a storage pool without impacting powervc

Adding the ability to change the name of a storage pool without impacting PowerVC would simplify storage management. Currently, if a storage pool's name is changed directly on the storage array (an "out-of-band" change), PowerVC does not detect th...
7 months ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

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
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 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...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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 3 Future consideration

PowerVC Support for selected I/O Group at SVC Host Creation

We have a customer with a larger number of hosts (> 256) each having 8 FC ports (paths). Because PowerVC for the deployment of new VMs creates the host object on the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in each SVC I/O group the SVC's limit of 2048 ...
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Brocade san fabric strong encryption support

Changing security requirements impacts host keys as saved in powervc SSH HostKeyAlgorithms : ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256 > SSH PubKeyAlgorithms : ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,...
23 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted