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PowerVC

Support for changing the name of a storage pool without impacting powervc

Adding the ability to change the name of a storage pool without impacting PowerVC would simplify storage management. Currently, if a storage pool's name is changed directly on the storage array (an "out-of-band" change), PowerVC does not detect th...
11 months ago in PowerVC Future consideration

PowerVC with PeerZoning/Smart Zoning

A new type of storage zoning is peerzoning or smartzoning. This method is clearer and more practical to handle. e.g. debugging etc.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Modify VIOS configuration of HOST while managed by PowerVC

It would be helpful if a customer could deallocate a VIOS Server from a managed host in PowerVC without need to remove the host and all lpars from PowerVC management.
3 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC Integration with Servicenow

Customer is planning to integrate the PowerVC application with ServiceNow. Kindly let us know whether this integration is feasible or not
about 2 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

Preferred node support for IBM SVC stretched cluster / PBHA

In a IBM (enhanced) stretched cluster or a PBHA (Hyperswap) implementation, it is necessary that the preferred node of a LUN is on the same site then the VM is running. Otherwise every IO has to go twice over the ISL's, because the multipath drive...
about 2 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration

PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
8 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

PowerVC container based (docker/podman)

To simplify the installation and update procedure and get more stability. This also reduces the dependencies on the operating system/repos.
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Configuring IPG to be exclusive for Tape Storage Templates

Most of the Power customers follow the best practice of segregating Disk and Tape traffic onto separate VIOS FC ports. Although PowerVC currently allows for specifying an IPG on Tape storage template (CLI), this IPG can be used by other Storage Te...
almost 3 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration

Add support to update PowerVC Fabric managed keys in the Appliance

PowerVC Fabric certificate replacement may require copying certifates into the trust store as well as manually copying to the PowerVC opt folders
4 months ago in PowerVC Submitted

More detailed user and role management in Power VC (based on Openstack Identity)

More detailed role and user management. In large installations and in environments with high security restrictions, such as banks, it is crucial to very precisely manage user rights and their roles, so I am asking you to expand these functionaliti...
over 2 years ago in PowerVC Future consideration