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PowerVC

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PowerVC to have backward compatibility with VIOS

PowerVC's support policy is 6 moth for ifix, 18 month for fix pack creation, while VIOS is 3 years support policy. VIOS caters for multiple LPARs, and therefore the customers tend to plan longer period to upgrade VIOS. The gap of support period ma...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Hyperswap compatibility on PowerVC 1.4.4

Client is using SVC Hyperswap in their environment. They would like PowerVC Hyperswap compatibility with their SVC.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Need DRP/FlashCore compress volume support

My customer has FS9110 and V5030E connected to Power E880 and E950. Both Power Systems are managed by PowerVC. But PowerVC cannot create FlashCore compressed volume on FS9100.Also, PowerVC cannot create a compress volume in DRP pool of V5030E.SVC ...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Deploy VM on specific host from PowerVC Northbound API

Without specified target host, PowerVC try to match the network id to the Host with same network id. If there is multiple Hosts has the same network(to support LPM), PowerVC will try deploy based on IP range. It failed if IP range does not match, ...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

PowerVC support for lun migration to different storage pool in IBM SVC

Our Costumer would like to migrate a LUN (created and managed by PowerVC) to a new storage Pool in the SVC. The Costumer has two old storage-pools in the SVC and would like to migrate Copy0 of the LUN to the new pool-1 and Copy1 of the LUN to new ...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

option to avoid volume formatting (like in SVC)

in SVC, there is a feature, "-nofmtdisk", to avoid new volumes formatting. It would be good to enable this feature also on type "generic" PowerVC Storage Templates. Currently, SVC always formats volumes created by PowerVC. thank you very much in a...
over 4 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
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Description Field for Compute and Storage templates

Add Description Field for Compute and Storage templates
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

PowerVC support for Storwize flashcopy base copy rate settings

PowerVC 1.4.2 uses the Storwize device driver for SVC support but does not currently support the storwize_svc_flashcopy_rate key in cinder-<device>.conf to set base copy rate when a flashcopy is made
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC Liveupdate support for Hitachi

Executing an AIX OS Liveupdate function through PowerVC using Hitachi storage is not working. See IBM support comments below. "After completing our investigation we have determined the issue is caused because PowerVC does not report the volume_wwn...
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

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