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PowerVC

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PowerVC- Clean Server/Client SCSI Adapters from VIOs/VM's profile after VM's Deployment

Hello,The current PowerVC when VM's are deployed, Server/Cleint SCSI Adapters get created on the VIOs/VM's for virtual media library for each VM's deployed. Our environment uses NPIV and it would be great if the Server/Client SCSI adapters gets cl...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Disk Image Export Contains Only Actual Disk Space In Use

Today the export process includes un-used/allocated disk space in the disk image. This results in very large exports. Other platforms (e.g. VMware) have an option to only include used disk space in the export. This can considerably reduce the size...
over 5 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 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Maintenance mode : Migration Evaluation upfront to detect failures and prevent canceling all migrations

We would like to see the whole maintenance mode (also known as "evacuate mode") , check first if there are errors in the precheck and validation steps, and then put them aside if they are failed, and run the migrations of the good ones . At the sa...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Cleanup after a remote restart of a VM when a system profiles are restored from backups

Assume that a running system was failed completely loosing its profiles and running VMs were remote restarted by PowerVC to other running systems. In above case, after the failure loosing profiles and VMs are relocated auotmatically. When the fail...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Restore Option needed - addition, disable experation

When restoring a PowerVC backup, we expired 100's of VM's at the same time. There needs to be a switch to disable expiration on a restore.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Highly available SDN through Nova Link

We have a need to have a highly available SDN in Novalink
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under 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 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add Searchlight in PowerVC

Searchlight dramatically improves the user focused search capabilities and performance on behalf of various OpenStack cloud services. Searchlight was originally developed and released in the Kilo release of Glance. It would be a great improvement ...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Power Enterprise pool : adding/removing mobile resources manually without using HMC

Please add Power Enterprise pool support for novalink managed hosts on PowerVC ! It is supported, but only through DRO.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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