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PowerVC

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Need Netapp Storage for IBM Powervc

We purchased new P series servers and wanted to use our existing Netapp storage, and powervc was one great tool we were looking forward to working with and it's not even supportedon Netapp platform. If we cant soon use Netapp then we have to recon...
almost 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Not under consideration

PowerVC deploy failure when flashcopy is running

PowerVC reports deployment failure when source svc is performing a flashcopy/Rather than report a deploy failure, recommend returning a warning to the user and delay the deploy request pending completion of flashcopy
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

OpenStack commands support within PowerVC

With openstack commands like nova, cinder, glance etc. there is a possibility to retrieve data with very basic syntax on command line from running powervc version 1.2.1 , like on examples below. Outputs are formatted to clear text-based tables. no...
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

PowerVC neutron subnet - IP range expansion and update

Present a CLI version to allow customer to update a subnet range which may have been created incorrectly
about 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Kerberos Support within PowerVC

Kerberos support within PowerVC for administrators managed by Microsoft ADS should be supported
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

PowerVC, One inaccessible cluster (pvc-cluster) on one of three hosts caused the unavailability of all storage resources

Product version:PowerVC 1.2.3.2 Customer sees this error:NV-F991BC3 Cannot retrieve any VIOS clusters. ***K2 Operator Error***: HTTP error for GET /rest/api/uom/Cluster?group=None: 500 (Internal Server Error) [K2 Error body Message: Unexpected err...
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

Limit number of Host entries created in PowerVC

PowerVC creates a host entry on back end storage for each PATH to storage, this can result in 32 host entries PER VM. This quickly exhausts available host entries on IBM products such as SVC or v7000
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

HPE 3PAR Storage Support

Our Storage is currently 3PAR and this is not supported with PowerVC.In order to use PowerVC we need 3PAR Storage Support. I've seen that there is a Openstack 3PART Block Driver. Or is that enough?There should also be support for 3par mpio on clie...
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

PowerVC - VIOS shared storage pool - cluster stabilty enhancement

In our PowerVC 1.2.3.2 PoC environment, an unavailability of all vios shared storage pool resources occurred right after migration from PowerVC version 1.2.2.2. Please check above PMR for details.
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Is a defect

PowerVC deploy to push complete hosts file for domain

IBM PowerVC will push host file update to a deployed VM to add the local host , it also allows updating VM with DNS, this feature is to push a fully populated hosts file to the target VM to bypass the need for a DNS
over 8 years ago in PowerVC 2 Not under consideration

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