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PowerVC

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    Multiple Domain/LDAP Directory Support

    Permit PowerVC to use multiple backend directories/authentication sources. This is already supported upstream by leveraging Keystone domains
    about 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    No root authority needed on storage for DRO alone

    Client wants to use PowerVC for its sole DRO functionality. No short term plan for deploying VMs with PowerVC. Nevertheless, PowerVC requires "root" authority on storage and SAN linked to the partitions. Due to client's organization and needs, thi...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC support for VMAX SRDF format disk

    SRDF is a common disk format for VMAX which allows off site real time replication
    over 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC Cloud Manager - scheduled approval

    Within Cloud PowerVC Manager having the ability as a Cloud Admin user to approve deployment requests but schedule the actual deployment for a given time and date would be extremely useful.
    over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    PAM-based authentication

    CMO uses keystone definitions on CMO level. PVC via local system. One would like to use the Pluggable Authentication Model (PAM defines authentication policy and authentication source, more...)
    over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    Compliance - Data retention policy required for data and logs within powervc

    To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within PowerVC that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
    2 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    IBM PowerVC MCP Server

    Unfortunately, it is currently only possible to execute actions or collect information via API, cli and GUI. However, in the age of AI and WatsonX, other interfaces are needed. It would be good if MCP services were also offered in the new version....
    4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    remove the symbolic link from /var/www/html

    a reminder that we would like the unix soft link removed. lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root /var/www/html/powervc -> /opt/ibm/powervc/ui
    6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    single QR code or a centralized MFA configuration - All PVC Servers

    At the customer environment, there are currently 17 PVC Applications in use. As part of the security enhancement plan, we are in the process of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all these applications. As per the current understan...
    6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Volume Storage per VM

    In the Virtual Machines page, the CPU & Memory allocations are displayed for each VM, it would be a useful addition to also include how much Storage (disk) space is allocated to each VM in this page.
    6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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