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PowerVC

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PowerVC to have native command support for quota management in a future release

Our AIX environment consists of 2500+ LPARs on which has 100+ clusters. We need to collocation (anti-affinity) feature to support more than 25 rules to ensure that our cluster nodes are not on the same physical IBM hardware.I would like PowerVC to...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Name of created LPAR profile should be changeable

Some customers have naming conventions also for the name of the LPAR profiles. Today the default name for a profile of a deployed LPAR is "default_profile". This should be changeable - at least in a config file, but better individually in a comput...
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

Support of selecting Network either pre defined or Infoblox

Hiwe want to use normal tcp funtionality as it is defined in Neutron on PowerVC today and additionally support for Infoblox. The problem is that i cannot define networks with either "Normal" networks in Powervc and Infoblox. Also we need the abili...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC and SAN visualizer

From PowerVC I would like to get a VM´s zoning information.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Power VC - AD Integration For Projects and Roles

Power VC. Goal to bind Power VC to AD Then Create AD groups and bind two primary roles: VM requester vs full admin to AD groups. And do this by and for independant projects within powervc The documentation here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledg...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Export Running LPAR

Add the ability to directly export a running LPAR without having to first create an Image.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC support for Diskimage-builder

The customer is currently using Diskimage-builder for to prepare and build all SOE's (including other platforms such as Intel). Customer is seeking official support for this tool to package SOE images for PowerVC to use.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Email all self-service users / Add custom email templates and rules

PowerVC has a built-in email functionality for requests/expiration notices. Enhancing the product with the ability to send notices to all users and users by project (maintenance notices / security bulletins / reminders) via the built-in "donotrepl...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PureStorage Active Cluster support for PowerVC

Would be great to have similar support for Dual site storage mirroring, as there is currently with SVC & HyperSwap on PowerVC 2.0.2. (please see RFE 113249 for details: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=...
about 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

cross-project images for PowerVC self-service

Currently in PowerVC Cloud Edition 1.4.0.0 (Novalink with Software Defined Storage stack)- it seems the only way to set up a image to be present on multiple projects is to either-A- go onto one of the novalink hosts, navigate to the gpfs path, cre...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration