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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 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

PowerVC - VIOS shared storage pool - cluster stabilty enhancement

In our PowerVC 1.2.3.2 PoC environment, an unavailability of all vios shared storage pool resources occurred right after migration from PowerVC version 1.2.2.2. Please check above PMR for details.
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Is a defect

PowerVC deploy to push complete hosts file for domain

IBM PowerVC will push host file update to a deployed VM to add the local host , it also allows updating VM with DNS, this feature is to push a fully populated hosts file to the target VM to bypass the need for a DNS
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

IBM PowerVC hybrid LDAP support

Openstack defines support for hybrid LDAP support documented herehttps://github.com/SUSE-Cloud/keystone-hybrid-backendthis allows isolate of work roles to unique ldap servers
over 9 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Manage SSP disk snapshot

Our company is using POWERVC to deploy AIX LPAR on our Power systems using SSP disks. We need to use the powervc interface to manage the SSP snaphots, so we could use this funcnionality without the need to access the VIOs directly. By manage, we m...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Let client choose the LPAR ID of PowerVC Deployment

The Current PowerVC Driver does not let you choose the LPAR ID to be specified.However we have seen cases in the field that the customer wants to choose the LPAR id to be used for deployment.Major reasons are because1. HMC taskroles rely on LPAR I...
about 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Virtual partition shutdown

HMC "Operations -> shutdown" asks if you are replacing a battery.This is impossible with only virtual resources.STOP ASKING ME THIS!
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

Automate Post operations of Image deployment or include with Image deployment process

I tried to deploy AIX images using PowerVC UI (in the Images tab, select image and Deploy), deployed a new LPAR successfully. But we need to perform few steps once the deployment is completed and LPAR is activated. a. Change the hostname/LPAR name...
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Is a defect

NON SAN storage connectivity groups go inactive and you can't bring them active after they are inactive. Need to be able to remove vm's from inactive groups or change in the UI.

Unable to add storage when SCG is inactive for a VM. Storage went unavailable due to ssp cluster issue with VIOS's .. on PowerVC the storage connectivity group for NON SAN storage went inactive. Issue 1: This needs an enhancement to either allow y...
1 day ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

support web portal interface on separate vlan (network) interface

Current situation with HMC and LKU is the following: we have two networks 1. administrative (admin) LAN (non-routed LAN and is used to communicate with HMCs, LPARs and NIM environment). So every LPAR, HMC and NIM server is connected to this LAN. T...
14 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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