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PowerVC

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Message - Add data to show the user that performed the action

Within the messages screen in PowerVC, it would be nice to see the user that performed the action. For example creating a VM or adding a Volume to a VM. This could be either in that column or just meta data when you highlight a row.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC advanced user role without deleting capability

We are trying to onboard/manage all existing PowerVM Hosts/VMs under PowerVC. Now every user role which can make change can also do delete VM including volumes. This is a potential disaster when we want our Tier-1 system admin team use PowerVC ins...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

MSPP support for DRO

We would like to see an enhancement for DRO, based not only on the CPU /memory utilization , but also on the MSPPs (shared Processor pools) utilization.
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC should allow you to change availability priority

PowerVC allows you to set an "availability priority" when deploying, but it does not allow you to change it afterwards. Since it is used to determine start-up sequence for remote restart, when the LPAR mix changes, you should be able to modify it ...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC option to save avail_priority on Migrate

On using the Migrate function in PowerVC, to move a partition to another managed system, it uses LPM. PowerVC has the notion of "availability priority" which is used by remote restart to determine the sequence in which to start partitions on disas...
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Update POWERVC to add servers using AMS

PowerVC cannot manage a Linux server running that uses AMS (Active Memory Services).
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

VM snapshot and restore features on PowerVC

Would like to see VM snapshot and restore features on PowerVC GUI or command line
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVC - Force Shutdown

Add option to force shutdown VMs without the 20min delay on graceful ACPI shutdown. Today selection of VM and "stop" , correctly defaults to a graceful shutdown ACPI command. But if system is in non-responsitve state, waiting for 20min before it t...
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Support for Data Reduction Pools

We would like PowerVC to support data reduction pools.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

LPM VMs to original system after Evacuation or Remote Restart

If a host is evacuated for systems maintenance or VMs are restarted using Remote Restart after a system outage PowerVC does not save the original source system to able to LPM the VMs back to the source after the maintenance.
about 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered