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PowerVC

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Support for HyperSwap in A9000 ( XIV ) with PowerVC

We would like to use PowerVC with HyperSwap in A9000 ( XIV )
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Avoiding HMC User HSCROOT for PowerVC

Create a user at HMC with least privileges to connect PowerVC to HMC
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

To support SRIOV networks in deploy template

PowerVC 1.4.4.1 cannot Create Deploy Template - no network defined error due to usage of SRIOV
almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC user role on HMC

Create a user with least privileges to connect PowerVC to HMC
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

We would like the VLANs to not be clean up after upgrade of PowerVC or LPM of VM

Why does the VLAN disappear after a successful migration, causing the VM to lose network connectivity from time to time. We are aware of the workaround: automated_powervm_vlan_cleanup=false https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/687597 We would li...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

vNIC backend deployment control

Todays networking standard on IBM PowerVM is moving towards the use of vNIC but today we lack the support to control how the SR-IOV and vNIC infrastructure is deployed using PowerVC. Today we have deployed 2 pair of VIO (4 vios) server where each ...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PVC not savin "running" config to "startup" config after every zone change on Cisco SAN Switches to Preserve over restarts

PowerVC 1.4.4 Is out of sync on "startup" config on Cisco MDS switches with "Running" config. This may result in loosing the last saved zone changes and its configuration data upon loosing or restarting SAN switches due to various reasons. Support...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

PowerVC adding tape fiberchannel adapter wwpn in host configuration on storage

When PowerVC attaches virtual fiber channel adapters to a vm that connect to a dedicated fabric to tape, PowerVC add the wwpns from theses adapters to the host storage definition in SVC/Storwize. Since these wwpns will never be used to access disk...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Disable the Feedback Dialog in PowerVC 1.4.4.1

It is a bad idea to put such requests in production-system-steering software/hardware. Systems are firewalled. you will never get feedback this way.
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Powervc: add support for very Long timeout waiting for Cisco swith with Enhanced Zoning

Cisco switches , on zone update may not commit the zone within 30 seconds, If enhanced zoning is enabled (customer knows that isn't supported with PowerVC), PowerVC will timeout the request waiting for a show zone to return answer other than "comm...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered