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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...
over 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...
over 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...
over 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
over 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.
over 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...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

1VM with more then one storage connectivity group

storage connectivity group , can single VM use two different storage connectivity groups?
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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...
over 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 ...
over 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.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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