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PowerVC

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CPU shared pool management

Could you check functionalities below : - is it possible to implement checking of the CPU shared pools while creating compute template?- possibility to create CPU shared Pool from PowerVC, list them ? have them visible while creating compute templ...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Create Table of Virtual Machines Names to choose from for Deployment

Instead of being able to enter in the Virtual Machine Name at deployment time I would like to have a list of names to choose from instead. The list would have been created and entered in earlier by the Admin and would associate an IP address with ...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

Bring back unused IP address list

PowerVC 1.4 removed the unused IP addresses from the IP Addresses page for a Network. Please make an option to include/exclude the unused addresses in the list.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Integration with 3rd Party SDN

Integration with 3rd Party SDN to support Network virtualistaion
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC SDI redundancy

PowerVC SDI with Open/IO does not support an equivalent of dual VIOS. Enable redundancy/dual Open/IO capability.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Export shared storage pool images from PowerVC

It would be nice to be able to back up the shared storage pool images using the new regular backup command or something similar. Using "dd" as the doc suggests works of course but it's definitely not user-friendly... and it could lead to huge prob...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 5 Future consideration

PowerVC installation package enhancement

Include all the required software for powervc to the installation package itself. This way customer will not be dependent to RedHat subscription. Subscription should only for the operating systems related and not IBM product, like PowerVC.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

PowerVC and storage V7000

PowerVC is connected to a storage box, here it is an IBM Storwize V7000.A Pool of disks of this storage is used by PowerVC. Say with others words, PowerVC is connected to the Storwize V7000 and uses this storage space.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

High Availability for PowerVC Integrated software-defined storage Engine

With PowerVC 1.4.0 IBM has announced Integrated software-defined storage engine. We need this engine with High availability so that we can map storage from Integrated software-defined storage to a client from two Integrated software-defined storag...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Integrate Huawei Storage Cinder driver into PowerVC

Huawei Storage is not one of the available storage providers in PowerVC. Please integrate the Huawei Storage Cinder driver into PowerVC. Huawei is Platinum Member of Openstack, Huawei Storage is also a core Cinder team member and has had in-tree C...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration