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Hardware Management Console

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    CLI command power on / off Multiple specified Managed Systems at same time

    Currently the latest Firmware ONLY allows to power on / off a single Managed System or ALL Managed Systems currently managed by this HMC. Requesting to have ability, in CLI, to Power On / Off multiple specified Managed Systems at the same time, li...
    over 1 year ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    CLI command to list LPAR description and Group tags

    HMC V10R1 GUI allows you to define LPAR/VM description and group tags. This is wonderful feature specially on a multi-tenancy system. However, there is no CLI command to list this information. We use the CLI command for ease of reporting.
    over 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Partition Virtual Storage Diagram - update label from OS400 to IBM i

    The Partition Virtual Storage Diagram produces an excellent diagram - but it shows the partition name and labels it as OS400. Rather out of date
    almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    We request that the System Location field be queryable from the HMC command line, similar to other fields.

    In the HMC GUI, if you navigate to System Resources, then Systems, and finally System Settings, you will find fields labeled "System Location" and "Description." These fields allow for free-form text entry. Would like the ability to query these fi...
    10 months ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Add GUI options for LU functions in Shared Storage Pool

    Today there is not a GUI option to handle snapshots of logical volumes / disks in Shared Storage Pool.
    3 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    HMC V10R2 - Configuration of the initial screen

    HMC V10R2M1040 came with the beautiful dashboard as the initial screen. Unfortunately not everyone likes to see the dashboard. Some of colleagues would like to see the list of the managed systems as the initial screen in HMC - same as with V10R2M1...
    over 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Planned for future release

    VIO LPM SAN and Network Virtualization Assignment

    Currently on the larger hardware like 880/980s we are running 4 VIOs, for restricted/nonrestricted VMs. When VMs are LPMed from one frame to another the network and SAN virtual connections aren't always assigned to the same VIO pairing. This can l...
    over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    RAID Rebuild Status on HMC

    After a defective disk has been replaced, the HMC user cannot see the status or progress of the RAID rebuilt. Only "lshmc -h" is available, to see the following status "degraded | n/a | enabled".However, this is essential for the further use of th...
    almost 7 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Planned for future release

    Allow HMC to get OS version from Novalink

    If there is no RMC connection to the HMC from the partition(s), the OS level cannot be determined. This leaves the OS-level field "blank" on the HMC. This influences tools that rely on the OS version, like LPAR2RRD and also makes it more difficult...
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

    Fibre Channel Port Label

    The should be unification between labels set with the labelvios command for FC ports and the VIO FC device attribute setting.
    4 months ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Planned for future release

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