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PowerVC

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SPP creation on target host within VM migration

In case of migrating a VM which is located in SPP (SharedProcessorPool); would it be possible that PowerVC automatically creates (or at least suggests creation) identical SPP on the target host? (instead of the need for admin going to HMC & cr...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Storage allocation figures@PowerVC GUI

Would it be possible to have Storage provider information visible in PowerVC GUI in more detailed level. (see example of needed information in Attachments). Currently most of this information is needed to be requested from Storage responsible pers...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

PowerVC provides insufficient details to user when returning error, Managing existing VM may fail if the VM was previously

This virtual machine is not a candidate for import because it was previously managed in PowerVC using a different project on a non-shared network. To manage the virtual machine, convert the network to a shared network
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - AD Integration and Group Link

Request to add into UI to join LDAP / AD (With noted examples of syntax!!!!! ). With post connection UI wizard or connection under groups where you select a PowerVC group and link it to AD group.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - UI Upgrade Component

Ability to query current version also includes notification of "upgrade pending". Where system upon check queries IBM site for patches or upgrade. Utility provides option to download and apply upgrade or patch as part of a wizard to apply immediat...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Define Quotas per user

Set up Quotas per user within a project for number of partitions assigned per user and/or number of partitions assigned to a user that can be concurrently active.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Cleanup after a remote restart of a VM when a system profiles are restored from backups

Assume that a running system was failed completely loosing its profiles and running VMs were remote restarted by PowerVC to other running systems. In above case, after the failure loosing profiles and VMs are relocated auotmatically. When the fail...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add Searchlight in PowerVC

Searchlight dramatically improves the user focused search capabilities and performance on behalf of various OpenStack cloud services. Searchlight was originally developed and released in the Kilo release of Glance. It would be a great improvement ...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC - zone update to CISCO switches

Customer would like zone updates to cisco switches to be staggered and delayed.PowerVC when creating zones for storage will force a zone update, On Cisco switches that may cause an outage to all storage impacted by the zone.The customer has redund...
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC support for Brocade LSAN (FC routing)

Within IKEA cloud (and automation) track there are systems (VM´s) that use storage from 2 different sites (different clusters). Today LSAN is configured for achieving this.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration