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PowerVC

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    PowerVC HA Architecture for 2 Node Clusters/Sites

    For customers with just 2 sites, a PowerVC Multi-Node implementation with just 2 nodes and STONITH is needed to have a proper working high availability solution. Installing PowerVC Multi-Node with 3 nodes in just 2 sites will always end up in the ...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC: LDAP registration support for special character

    PowerVC ldap registration has limited support for special characters making registration difficult
    7 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Compliance - Data retention policy required for data and logs within powervc

    To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within PowerVC that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
    4 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Improving Certificates Management in powervc-backup and powervc-restore

    The powervc-backup tool requires enhancement to incorporate a valuable feature that verifies the expiration status ( in the next six months) of certificates utilized for web UI, messaging, and Virtual Console during the backup process. Moreover, w...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC support "Spectrum Virtualize Volume Mobility"

    To migrate from one SVC to a new SVC you need this feature. This works similar to LPM "only" not with VMs but with LUNs.
    over 2 years ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

    Speed up RMC state changes in PowerVC

    In PowerVC sometimes it takes a lot of time until an active RMC state is recognized and shown in PowerVC. The HMC provides an event mechanism over the REST API that may be used to inform PowerVC of RMC state changes. If this mechanism is used the ...
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Need support of Hybrid Network in PowerVC

    We need support of Hybrid Network for High Speed adapter >= 100 GBE
    almost 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

    PowerVC: Define concurrent deploy limits

    PowerVC provides recommendations to set concurrent deploy limits here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervc-cloud/2.3.0?topic=powervc-planning-performance yet there is no cloud policy in PowerVC to enforce such limits, in multi-tenant environments i...
    7 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Check storage host mappings before deleting a LUN

    Customer has mapped outside from PowerVC LUNs from source VM1 to destination VM2. Both VMs are managed by PowerVC and yes this was not the correct way to move LUNs between VMs. Then he deleted VM1 and loses VM2 completely, while running productive...
    about 4 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.
    over 4 years ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

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