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PowerVC

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PowerVC support for Storage Virtualize Safeguarded Snapshots (SGC 2.0)

As an IBM business partner we have several customers using an IBM SAN Volume Controller stretched-cluster configuration with PowerVC for Private Cloud.The customers are interested in a Safeguarded Copy cyber resiliency solution but it cannot be re...
12 months ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Remote Restart & Entering maintainance mode to support collocation affinity rules

Currently PowerVC doesn't function in a desired manner when utilising collocation affinity rules. When you put a host into maintenance mode, if that host has multiple virtual machines in the same collocation rule, you cannot migrate active virtual...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC HMC connection to use sshkey

The HMC connection should allow for ssh keys to stop relying on the hmc username and particularly password. As our HMC Password is meant to change once used. So using a public/private key after the first authentication is necessary.
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

Disable feature which will power off a vm without user action

PowerVC design is to force a power off of a vm without operator action if PowerVC determines the state of the vm is not in agreement with it's internal known state openstack used to provide sync_power_state_interval to disable this feature by sett...
4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Editing IPGs after adding new hosts in PowerVC

Unfortunately, there is no option to edit IPGs if they are already in use. However, if you add new hosts to the PowerVC. You must then set the tags for the new hosts for the respective WWPNs. (Example DATA/BOOT)
4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

SR-IOV vNIC port redundany over multiple CECs in a E1080

Today PowerVC creates SR-IOV vNIC backing devices based on the saturation of an adapter port. For redundant SR-IOV networks, PowerVC picks at least a separate adapter (not the same as for the primary SR-IOV network).In an E1080 system PowerVC shou...
over 3 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

please add validation support for remote restart to hmc and pvc for future releases

currently neither PVC nor HMC offer any kind of validation for remote restart. So there is no way to know in advance if a frame goes down, remote restart is working. We are asking for a validation feature either in PVC or in HMC to make sure that ...
about 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Planned for future release

Powervc UI security weakness test application for potential removal

Disable Auto Index Module Remove all sample content and features remove location match Restrict the use of Status module Restrict Weak Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Ciphers Disable Info module Disable User Directories module Disable Web-based Distrib...
6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

PowerVC event and audit logging to SIEM (e.g. QRadar)

We have a security requirement to centrally gather logs from various network devices, including PowerVC, in a SIEM (QRadar in our case).Currently PowerVC does not provide such option.
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

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