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PowerVM VIOS

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    support multibos under VIO

    Support of multibos under VIO.
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

    VIOS support for NPIV tape failover

    There is no VIOS support for NPIV tape failover due to the fact that the tape devices have no "I/O re-try" option. If VIOSA fails, all virtual tape drives have to be reconfigured and re-mapped manually in VIOSn, or pre-configured using different W...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 1 Not under consideration

    PowerVM Shared Storage Pool support for Hitachi GAD devices

    Customer is moving to a module concept for datacentre and want to user PowerVC to manage without access to Switches and SAN - Shared storage pools is the perfect solution, but needs to be able to support the Hitachi GAD concept (Hyperswap) with LU...
    over 8 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

    Provide ability for virtual optical devices larger than 4.3GB

    Using Virtual Media Library the optical device is restricted to 4.3GB in size. It then prompts for a second volume for images larger than 4.3GB.Requesting possibility to have virtual optical device increased beyond 4.3GB
    over 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

    Enhancements in partition migration between different FC environments

    Hello,many times, we work in environments where partitions are migrated between servers that do not share the same hardware configuration (e.g., fewer FC cards, Ethernet cards, etc.).If the source server has a mapping of one virtual FC (vFC) adapt...
    3 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Add flag to viosbr backup command to exclude security files

    The viosbr command has been expanded to backup all of the trusted AIX file sets (twice) which has increased the size of the tarred, zipped backup file 1,000 times (not a typo). A flag has been created to not use these files when restoring but the ...
    4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    VIOSUPGRADE / UPDATEIOS -- Add "Date" and "Time" prefixes to screen output

    Whilst running the update / upgrade (VIOS) commands one cannot easily see "when" a specific piece of screen output was written, was it a second ago or two hours? Having the extra detail displayed on the screen helps with understanding, improves cl...
    4 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    chdef should be able to set queue_depth defaults for iscsi non-mpio disks.

    We use ISCSI disks and do not have multi path storage available to us, so we would need to set the queue_depth for all newly created iscsi disks. However, we have to use chdev to accomplish this manually for each disk instead of just setting the d...
    10 months ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Make "Memory Region Size" on a server dynamic

    Recently, we encountered issues with Grub on Linux that it was not possible to use the standard 256MB memory region size on a server. We wish that the memory region size can be dynamic or defined per LPAR instead of a system wide setting, as chang...
    about 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

    Better troubleshooting when HMC doesn't display devices like disks when it should.

    When the CMDB on the VIOS server is wrong, then the HMC simply does not display what you should see, and you have zero insight into why. We had issues with disks, missing UUIDs, or other errors. There should be a command, maybe a little more refin...
    over 3 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Planned for future release

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