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PowerVC

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    PowerVC option to save avail_priority on Migrate

    On using the Migrate function in PowerVC, to move a partition to another managed system, it uses LPM. PowerVC has the notion of "availability priority" which is used by remote restart to determine the sequence in which to start partitions on disas...
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

    PowerVC - Customize the LPAR name, LUN's names and Storage Zoning names.

    We have PowerVC setup to do storage provisioning and the PowerVC created LPAR, LUN's and Zoning names are currently not set as per our company standards.
    almost 10 years ago in PowerVC 7 Delivered

    Support for HyperSwap in A9000 ( XIV ) with PowerVC

    We would like to use PowerVC with HyperSwap in A9000 ( XIV )
    over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

    specify novalink host as option in powervc-diag collection

    Add a specification field to specify all novalinkhost or only the problem novalink host in powervc-diag
    about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

    Ability to expand storage volumes in the PowerVC Web interface.

    Currently it is possible to expand PowerVC managed volumes only by utilising a Rest API call, there is no option to perform this task in the GUI. The option to expand a volume should be available in the GUI. Needing to utilise Rest API for such a ...
    about 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

    Zone tape drives to separate set of vFC and Physical FC ports other than the ones used for disk access

    Currently PowerVC zones tape drives to same set of vFC and Physical adapters that are also accessing disks. But industry best practice does not allow this. As per best practice Tape drives are mapped to separate set of vFC and Physical FC ports to...
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

    Ability to Onboard VM with Logical Ports (SRIOV)

    A classical VM is deployed on PowerVC. We need it to use Logical Ports because its OS level does not support VNIC adapters. we have to add them after the deploy, once the VM is managed by powerVC. for some reason we unmanage the host or the VM, we...
    about 7 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

    implement a newer version of mongodb version 8

    currrently mongodb 5 is supported within the powervc version 2.2.1 & 2.3.0we require a more current mongodb version.
    about 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

    PowerVC-Zoing policy for multipe storages connected to VM-Challenges with current zoning policy

    PowerVC is being deployed in a leading Bank in India. Customer wants to have zoning policy where in powervc should zone only targets of individual storages with initiator/initatorvfc instead of multiple storages zoned together in one zone.current ...
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

    PowerVC should use a supported version of python3

    The most recent version of PowerVC (2.0.3 released May 2022) installs with Python 3.6.8 and is coded so that it will only work only with Python 3.6.8. Python 3.6.8 went out of support 12/23/2021. Thus, PowerVC is using an insecure release of pytho...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

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