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PowerVC

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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
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Volume Storage per VM

In the Virtual Machines page, the CPU & Memory allocations are displayed for each VM, it would be a useful addition to also include how much Storage (disk) space is allocated to each VM in this page.
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

support web portal interface on separate vlan (network) interface

Current situation with HMC and LKU is the following: we have two networks 1. administrative (admin) LAN (non-routed LAN and is used to communicate with HMCs, LPARs and NIM environment). So every LPAR, HMC and NIM server is connected to this LAN. T...
8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Ability to assign/reassign/remove VMs from Shared Processor Pools

Currently in PowerVC the only way that a Shared Processor Pool can be set for a VM is by using a compute template specifying the pool at deployment time. Any change of a VM to a different pool post deploy needs to be performed using the HMC. Havin...
11 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Include snapshot space usage in resource usage for a project.

Currently PowerVC doesn't include the space usage of snapshots in the resource usage (Volume Storage) for a project. This space usage is effectively hidden from the project. It would be useful for this to be included as either part of the overall ...
about 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Change view e permissione for role "VIEWER"

We operate as an ICP for several of our Power Systems client. As we explore the different cloud users' roles in PowerVC, we realize the Viewer user role is the one that fits as the most except for one thing. It is missing the 'resource usage' view...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

cascading storage groups for EMC/Dell storage should be an option, not forced.

Sometime back IBM changed PowerVC to force cascading storage groups which caused extreme difficulty to the point of making PowerVC unusable in our EMC Storage array environment. Even after redommissioning PowerVC (with regret), we were migrating 5...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Offer "Update check" from inside the UI

I would like to have an "update is available" pop up or check from inside the UI, like in FS7* systems. This could/would make a good hint that new updates are available, so update does not get missed or delayed.
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Offer "Restart services" from inside the UI

To be able to restart services (as an admin user) removes the extra task of logging into the OS and choosing services to restart.
over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration