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PowerVC

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PowerVC support for CentOS

Currently PowerVC supports RHEL only. Can CentOS be added to the supported Operating System for the PowerVC Management Server? Another alternative could be Ubuntu.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC volume_name convert script with 3PAR

When using PowerVC with HPE 3PAR, tracing storage volume_names between PowerVC and 3PAR is not implemented due to pluggable driver.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

ACS???????????????????????

ACSのSQL Scriptsにてデータ表示後、コピーをするとハング状態となる。IBM開発側にて再現しており、「ACSを利用する際に、サイズの大きなファイルから一度にすべてのデータを要求するとディスクアクセスが大量発生するため、ユーザーインターフェースがロックされってしまうのは仕様です。将来的には仕様変更が検討されていますが、現時点では予定などは目処が立っておりません。」との回答あり。
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

PowerVC Support With NetApp Storage

Banking customer has deployed NetApp (FAS8080) storage with AFF & FAS controllers. Currently CBS is deployed on AFF. And they are evaluating IBM Power8 E880 Systems for Core banking Software (Finacle 10.x).
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 5 Future consideration

Dedicated CPU templates lack "Allow when partition is active" checkbox

When creating/editing a compute template, with dedicated processors, it is not possible to check af box to implement "Allow when partition is active" as you can do in HMC. You can check a box called "Idle sharing", whick is equal to "Allow when pa...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Live capture multiple volumes on a shared storage pool

"Live capture uses group operations to capture virtual machines with multiple volumes. It is not possible to live capture virtual machines with multiple volumes on a shared storage pool." An option to override the requirement for consistency group...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

NetAPP Storage support for PowerVC

We are using Netapp Storage Model : FAS8040 and AFF8080 in our core Banking Environment. Now we are planing for private cloud and considering PowerVC for the same. But as netapp is not supported this is a roadblock for us, Please add netapp suppor...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

PowerVC migrate an inactive LPAR

Would really like to see the ability to migrate inactive lpars in PVC
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC - editing VM?s properties

Editing VM properties.To reflect the Connectivity Group and Image source.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Add 3PAR to the list of natively supported storage

In order to use 3par with PowerVC it is required that we use the pluggable storage driver. This is cumbersome and makes upgrades difficult. In addition it makes it difficult to copy images to different storage towers and we are unable to import ou...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration