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PowerVM VIOS

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When is the next upgrade to viosecure expected? Some ideas for inclusion for CIS compliance...

Is an upgrade to viosecure planned? What new items will be included? Our CIS compliance fails to pass the AIX benchmark, but we've not found a VIOs benchmark. Will some new password parameters from CIS 3.1.2.* be added to VIOs, such as: mindigit, ...
9 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

VIOS no-prompt updateios

Hi IBM, Would you be able to add a flag/option to the updateios command to suppress the 'Continue bos.rte.install installation [y|n]?' and other similar prompts?
almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

powerVM SSP check ability to resolve all nodes before expell them

When a new node is added to a PowerVM_SSP cluster, all other nodes receive this information. But if this new node is not able to be resolved, existing nodes are expelled from the cluster.
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Warning when reach the 16 nodes limit in SSP cluster

There is a limit of 16 nodes in a SSP cluster, but you can add a 17th without any warning message. I think it would be better to be informed.
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

After VIOS complete boot to trigger any IBM i VMs to start

We could not find a mechanism to start IBM i VMs after VIOS complete IPL. This is necessary for unattended operations in case of power failure or a complete reboot of the hardware is required. VIOS starts automatically after the hardware is starte...
about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Needs more information

VIO device naming convention after LPM (vfchostX)

See case TS002260514:LPM/HMC does mess up the AIX device names on target VIOS.Especially if using the "vios-virtual-slot-number" on the target VIOSs i would assume the device naming is the same on both. But it is not as we know.
over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

IBM i handle disk timeout error during VIOS outage and dump

IBM i to the disk I/O time out error recovery processing when a VIOS partition is unresponsive allowing faster fail over to another available path.'
almost 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 4 Future consideration

updateios failure during window closure

You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS008403859Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.2.10 on top of his system 3.1.1.25 .During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to VPN discon...
almost 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

Use syslog service on VIO to send syslog into to syslog-ng splunk server

In talking with our Premium Proactive Support Team Lead Kellie Kronenberger she encouraged us to submit what our security team is seeking to implement via syslog as regards certain VIO servers in our environment. What our security team wants to ha...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Under review

updateios breaks the update due to network disruption

You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS011570960Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.4.10 on top of his system 3.1.3.14.During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to network dis...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

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