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PowerVM VIOS

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Retry FDISC to re-establish a NPIV connection at a user settable time frame

In a virtualized environment with NPIV certain fabric changes (such as firmware updates) may require the need to re-establish a NPIV connection using a FDISC. This FDISC is being retried. If this is not successful the NPIV client is giving up, and...
about 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

Include linux screen command in VIOS

Hello, We would like that VIOs support a similar command as the screen command in the linux world. Thank you OD
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

Vios - enhance lsnports command to provide more info

Enhance the command lsnports so that it displays additional info that what is shows already I would like to be able to see Customer Added info (From the odm) added by maybe a chdev to add a description field for each lsnports entry to show me (fab...
about 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

VIO Readonly access to oem_setup_env

Requesting a solution for a VIO Readonly access to the full oem_setup_env environment.
about 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

Add Network Tunnelling support via VXLAN or GRE for PowerVM

PowerVM lacks of support for SDN solutions and only supports legacy vlan based layer 2 networks.Against this hypervisors under x86 supports network tunnelling technology. For example KVM supports VXLAN or GRE using OpenvSwitch. ESX supports VXLAN ...
about 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

support multibos under VIO

Support of multibos under VIO.
about 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

VIOS support for NPIV tape failover

There is no VIOS support for NPIV tape failover due to the fact that the tape devices have no "I/O re-try" option. If VIOSA fails, all virtual tape drives have to be reconfigured and re-mapped manually in VIOSn, or pre-configured using different W...
about 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

PowerVM Shared Storage Pool support for Hitachi GAD devices

Customer is moving to a module concept for datacentre and want to user PowerVC to manage without access to Switches and SAN - Shared storage pools is the perfect solution, but needs to be able to support the Hitachi GAD concept (Hyperswap) with LU...
over 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

VIOS storage mirror testing over distant datacenters

To increase the rubustness of the VIOS, it is highly appreciated to also do testing for storage mirroring over distant datacenters.The requesting client has an environment of about 5.000 vscsi disks from two datacenters with a distance of 5 miles....
about 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Not under consideration

Padmin GID Non-0

Change padmin group to non-zero We have manually set many of our VIOS instances to 1 staff without any issues. However this is non-standard and not supported by IBM. Need a supported option from IBM. RFQ system doesn't allow Salesforce cases. TS00...
over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration