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PowerVC

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POWERVC - Multiple SAN port tags

We would like the ability to provide multiple SAN port tags in PowerVC.
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Add support for Power Enterprise Pools V2 for PowerVC 1.4.2

PowerVC 1.4.3 will support PEP V2, require this capability for PowerVC 1.4.2
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Rewording Error Message

It appears our product is receiving an incorrect error message from PowerVC. We believe that the customer can benefit greatly from changing the wording of this error message to make the issue clearer. A picture will be uploaded to ecurep for this ...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Adding Eye for Password check in GUI

When entering a userid and password when adding a storage system or a san switch system etc. there is no "eye" button to check if the password was entered correctly
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC prerequisites check and cancel installation if requirements ulimit are not met

PowerVC prerequisites check and cancel installation if requirements like ulimit are not met For reference https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSXK2N_1.4.3/com.ibm.powervc.standard.help.doc/powervc_installing_rhel_mgmt_vm_hmc.html
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Remote copies

PowerVC is currently unaware of remote copies on our IBM V7000 storage systems.This breaks deleting LPAR and resizing disks, deleting disks.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Need description field in Storage Template

In PowerVC there is no field for adding a description for a storage template e.g. Quality desciptorc etc.
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

REST API does not return Description field of VM

When defining a VM in PowerVC, you can add a description of the virtual machine. That is (or can be) displayed in PowerVC when looking at the list of vm's etc. We use that description to specify what the VM does (what the customer uses it for), si...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Existing ESS / Spectrum Scale cluster usage for PowerVC SDS

PowerVC is the OpenStack implemetation for POWER servers. In new versions PowerVC can be installed as SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) edition.The storage part of the SDI is implemented with Spectrum Scale 5.x which is shipped with PowerVC.Po...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Enable OpenStack / PowerVC to do a snapshot restore

IBM should try to force OpenStack board to consider and define a snapshot restore API call within cinder module; subsequent there should be an implementation within IBM's cinder software as a part of PowerVC to support that function by SVC / storw...
over 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered