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PowerVM VIOS

Fields for system name and system description should be filled for lldp requrests on SR-IOV adapter

This feature will prevent failure in handling and configuration and enhance failure determination. When requesting lldp information of Power systems from the switch port the network department can confirm that they are working the the correct syst...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Future consideration

Allow for profile changes during LPM to save downtime on systems

An lpar with min 1G, desired 10G and max 16G memory profile, requires a reboot and profile change to move the min or max numbers to anything else. Since during an LPM it first creates a new profile on the target frame, sure would be nice if say th...
about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS Not under consideration

Prevent vNIC Port Flapping

We recognized that SR-IOV / vNIC implementation have a different behaviour when the physical link is having problems. This leads to flapping adapters in some cases. Shared Ethernet Adapters (SEA) have different kind of parameters to configure to p...
over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Under review

VIOSUPGRADE / UPDATEIOS -- Add "Date" and "Time" prefixes to screen output

Whilst running the update / upgrade (VIOS) commands one cannot easily see "when" a specific piece of screen output was written, was it a second ago or two hours? Having the extra detail displayed on the screen helps with understanding, improves cl...
7 months ago in PowerVM VIOS Future consideration

cron log auto maintenance

Customer met /var full problem several times in VIOS 3.1. I checked their environment and found /var/adm/cron/log is very huge. It causes filesytem full. I know /etc/cronlog.conf maintained cron's log, but VIOS doesn't set that file. I know cusome...
over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Planned for future release

Single VIOS Shared Storage Pool with Internal Storage

This request is for single VIOS / Single Server use case for Edge or Single Node implementations. These implementations are 'self contained' and do not have external SAN storage. Having VIOS provide a Shared Storage Pool on internal disk enables P...
about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 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?
over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Not under consideration

viosecure Firewall - add support for adding a whole subnet

Currently viosecure firewall supports only adding single IP addresses ( -address parameter) to the firewall rules. However, it would be good to have a possibility / option to add whole subnet sometimes, without the need to explicitly set each IP a...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Planned for future release

VIOS Logging to a syslog endpoint

We are being pressured by our security teams to provide logging from the VIOs to a syslog endpoint that feeds splunk.We have a config from support that would allow this, but it has to be implemented via the oem_setup environment and is not support...
about 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Planned for future release

MVP for PowerVM VIOS

Today, IBM supply ISO images for the target PowerVM VIOS levels via entitled software distribution channel. However considering the overall security and audit posture for the clients ,can IBM look at providing a 'slimmer' VIOS image that only cont...
over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS Not under consideration

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