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PowerVM VIOS

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Extend viosecure.ctl config file with interface, address, and description fields.

The viosecure -firewall command work now only as a port filter setup. In the /home/ios/security/viosecure.ctl there are no options to set ip addresses or ranges, neither a interface can be selected where the filter rules should be applied. It appl...
12 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

Modernizing IBM SEA to handle Cisco micro-segmentation policy

CISCO ACI in conjunctions with VMWARE have developed the ability to apply multiple Private VLAN configurations (micro-segmentation) onto a single switchport. Normal Private VLAN implementations require the creation of the Primary VLAN (200) which ...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

extend AIX ARTEX catalog for rdma capable SR-IOV Logical ports and vNIC backing device (adapter/ofedroce)

SRIOV VF RDMA is NOT supported on most LP. nevertheless the default value of rdma is desired and increase VIOS memory footprint in large environments.
over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

Get the lpar name instead of lpar id on lsmap -vadapter output

The only way I have to get the lpar name to which a vhost is connected to is to get it in the HMC. On my clients HMC access is restricted to the NIMs and not available on the VIOS. So I am unable to write a script that get's all the mappings for a...
8 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

Enhancements in partition migration between different FC environments

Hello,many times, we work in environments where partitions are migrated between servers that do not share the same hardware configuration (e.g., fewer FC cards, Ethernet cards, etc.).If the source server has a mapping of one virtual FC (vFC) adapt...
4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

VIOS Performance collection replacement tool

Is there a replacement tool available within VIOS for the "VIOS Performance collection"? Existing tool results are not supported on any modern browser due to security consumers. I think the tool was useful and gave me some idea of what is happenin...
10 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

add SEA Sharing mode support for adding/removing vETH adapters

I also opened the case TS011984472. Adding or removing vETH adapters to a SEA Sharing mode will create a downtime as design limitation.Could you please re-design the SEA Sharing mode?
almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Request Network cards SFP stats used for VIOS servers

VIO servers have fcstat that displays stats for the transceiver (SFP), so far I have not found a complement for network cards SFPs. I have found that ethtool for Linux does display a lot of info for the SFP's, and need this info for network SFPs, ...
over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Node exporter for VIOS

We (PowerVS) request a Prometheus exporter for the VIOS that can send system and partition utilization data to the Prometheus time-series database. This would greatly assist in consolidating performance data in a single location alongside other in...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

VIOSUPGRADE / UPDATEIOS -- Add "Date" and "Time" prefixes to screen output

Whilst running the update / upgrade (VIOS) commands one cannot easily see "when" a specific piece of screen output was written, was it a second ago or two hours? Having the extra detail displayed on the screen helps with understanding, improves cl...
5 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted