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PowerVM VIOS

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    VIOS 3.1 VIOC iSCSI rootvg and datavg

    Following a request from a customer about VIOS 3.1 and iSCSI support.https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/9223-22H/p9hb1/p9hb1_vios_concepts_iscsi.htmThis webpage is confusing when "limitations" paragraph is read:--Currently, the iSCSI disk...
    over 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    When is the next upgrade to viosecure expected? Some ideas for inclusion for CIS compliance...

    Is an upgrade to viosecure planned? What new items will be included? Our CIS compliance fails to pass the AIX benchmark, but we've not found a VIOs benchmark. Will some new password parameters from CIS 3.1.2.* be added to VIOs, such as: mindigit, ...
    almost 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Under review

    updateios failure during window closure

    You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS008403859Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.2.10 on top of his system 3.1.1.25 .During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to VPN discon...
    almost 4 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images"

    Enhance VIOS "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" --- to mirror VMware ESXi functionality for "Virtual SCSI Optical/ISO images" #####################################mkrep -sp rootvg -size 20Gls -l /fix/AIX_v7.2_Base_Install_DVD_1_of_2_TL_7200-01-01.1...
    almost 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

    PVLAN support for PowerVM

    Currently PowerVM only accepts PVLANs by forcing VEPA on its vswitch and private-vlan host mode set on the external switch port (1 primary VLAN, 1 secondary PVLAN). (as described in this IBM developerworks link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/...
    almost 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Future consideration

    After VIOS complete boot to trigger any IBM i VMs to start

    We could not find a mechanism to start IBM i VMs after VIOS complete IPL. This is necessary for unattended operations in case of power failure or a complete reboot of the hardware is required. VIOS starts automatically after the hardware is starte...
    over 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Needs more information

    updateios breaks the update due to network disruption

    You can reach out Deepak Menezes(deepakme@in.ibm.com) .This is with respect to issue we hit on case TS011570960Was installing Fix Pack 3.1.4.10 on top of his system 3.1.3.14.During the installation the Putty session disconnected due to network dis...
    about 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    PowerVM VIOS, the Shared Ethernet Adapter device (SEA) needs support for IEEE802.3 Ethernet frame type

    The SEA device in all VIOS releases is only designed for handling the EthernetV2 frame type with TCP/IP checksum offloading and the largesend/large_receive features.If a VIO client LPAR (IBMi or AIX or Linux) is configured to use IP interfaces wit...
    about 6 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

    SEA over a 10Gb Ethernet Port in VIOS. Allow Virtual Ethernet Adapters in client partitions to run at 10Gb rather than a maximum of 1Gb.

    Current limitation of Virtual Ethernet Adapters to run at 1Gb. If a 10Gb Ethernet port is set up as an SEA in VIOS, then client partitions using the bridge of virtual to physical are limited by the Virtual Ethernet Adapter maximum of 1Gb bandwidth...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Needs more information

    VIOS - NPIV Adapters: Active WWPN Switch

    It would be awesome if there would be a possibility to switch the active WWPN online. Just a command which switches the active WWPN.
    about 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

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