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PowerVC

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IBM PowerVC hybrid LDAP support

Openstack defines support for hybrid LDAP support documented herehttps://github.com/SUSE-Cloud/keystone-hybrid-backendthis allows isolate of work roles to unique ldap servers
about 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Manage SSP disk snapshot

Our company is using POWERVC to deploy AIX LPAR on our Power systems using SSP disks. We need to use the powervc interface to manage the SSP snaphots, so we could use this funcnionality without the need to access the VIOs directly. By manage, we m...
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Let client choose the LPAR ID of PowerVC Deployment

The Current PowerVC Driver does not let you choose the LPAR ID to be specified.However we have seen cases in the field that the customer wants to choose the LPAR id to be used for deployment.Major reasons are because1. HMC taskroles rely on LPAR I...
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

PAM-based authentication

CMO uses keystone definitions on CMO level. PVC via local system. One would like to use the Pluggable Authentication Model (PAM defines authentication policy and authentication source, more...)
over 10 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Virtual partition shutdown

HMC "Operations -> shutdown" asks if you are replacing a battery.This is impossible with only virtual resources.STOP ASKING ME THIS!
about 11 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

Automate Post operations of Image deployment or include with Image deployment process

I tried to deploy AIX images using PowerVC UI (in the Images tab, select image and Deploy), deployed a new LPAR successfully. But we need to perform few steps once the deployment is completed and LPAR is activated. a. Change the hostname/LPAR name...
about 11 years ago in PowerVC 2 Is a defect

Compliance - Data retention policy required for data and logs within powervc

To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within PowerVC that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

IBM PowerVC MCP Server

Unfortunately, it is currently only possible to execute actions or collect information via API, cli and GUI. However, in the age of AI and WatsonX, other interfaces are needed. It would be good if MCP services were also offered in the new version....
3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

remove the symbolic link from /var/www/html

a reminder that we would like the unix soft link removed. lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root /var/www/html/powervc -> /opt/ibm/powervc/ui
5 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

single QR code or a centralized MFA configuration - All PVC Servers

At the customer environment, there are currently 17 PVC Applications in use. As part of the security enhancement plan, we are in the process of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all these applications. As per the current understan...
5 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration