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Hardware Management Console

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    Create SAN Zones from HMC (or from VIOS) for vFC-Client-LPARs

    Using PeerZones simplifies Zoning and provides a base that can easily be expanded.Once the principals are prepared, it is easy to add new clients. This could also be extended to the storage system configuration for each host. HMC is in a pivotal p...
    19 days ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Allow VIOS/Novalink as proxy for RMC connection (auto-discovery?)

    In our case the HMC does not have an RMC connection to the AIX and Linux LPARs due to our networking setup; it DOES have an RMC connection to the Virtual I/O Servers, which in turn have an RMC connection to Novalink, which acts as the managing ins...
    5 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    Add a flag to HMC CLI commands to display attribute names inline with attributes when using -F filter on atributes (similiar to --header)

    When scripting on HMC CLI you have basically two options for filtering attributes. For example 1. lshmcusr | grep $USER name=dummy,taskrole=hmcoperator,description='Dummy User',pwage=30,resourcerole=ALL:,authentication_type=local,remote_webui_acce...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC.

    The power consumption per LPAR (memory, CPU) should be visible in the HMC. This should also be available for the entire managed system. The energy costs calculated down to the work performed is becoming increasingly important for customers when th...
    about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    BMC user password reset from HMC

    This is a continuation of the original RFE: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/HMC-I-435 We would like the password reset functionality for BMC users from HMC to be extended to other BMC accounts (consists of hmcinband, root and ADMIN), including the abi...
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    go directly in Virtual Fibre Channel instead of Virtual SCSI tab when going on LPAR Virtual Storage

    When clicking on the LPAR, then virtual storage, the first tab virtual scsi is automatically selected. In the majority of cases, we would rather use virtual storage channel tab first. Can you change default to be virtual storage channel? or create...
    6 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    The x86 image should also be provided for Nutanix, as more customers migrate from VMWare to Nutanix

    Flexible IBM Power solutions for the customer
    about 2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Enable the use of VLAN tagging for HMC LAN/network ports

    The HMC’s LAN/network ports do not accept VLAN‑tagged traffic when a public IP is configured. They expect untagged (access) frames on a single VLAN. If an HMC LAN port is connected to a switch port set as a trunk (carrying multiple 802.1Q‑tagged V...
    2 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Submitted

    Provide Prometheus exporter for LPAR and System data in HMC

    Please provide a Prometheus exporter for the HMC which cound be used for sending system and partition utilization data to prometheus timeseries database. This would be very helpful to consolidate performance data in a single place together with ot...
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    make simplified remote restart fully disaster recovery capable

    When employing simplified remote restart, one requisite to restart an LPAR on another machine is that all SAN paths and targets (e.g. LUNs) have to be available on target VIO servers. During a disaster recovery scenario, this is not the case; in a...
    almost 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Future consideration

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