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PowerVC

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Resize multiple volumes using 1 request

PowerVC allows Volume resize, today each volume must be resized one at a time. ideally, PowerVC would allow selection of multiple volumes and resize to a size larger than the largest existing volume. Example. Volume 1 is 200 GB VOlume 2 is 100 GB ...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Power-Not-Responding

Our current PowerVC version is 2.0.2. We unable to create the LUNs. Unable to deploy new servers. Here -> Images - Image list - we have filled all require columns then after clicked deploy button not responding.
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Not under consideration

Fabric monitoring/visibility for PowerVC

Hello team, We have PowerVC 2.0.2 and during migration storage fabrics were replaced as well. Unfortunately without accounts for PowerVC. Once that was done PowerVC was blind for that, we tried:- create new LUN - it failed, without any notificatio...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

UI Enhancement - add ability to shutdown / reboot PVC from GUI

It would be nice if the PVC GUI would offer the ability to shutdown / reboot PVC itself similar to the HMC.
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Add api support for all Project QUOTA

Customer would like to be able to check quota limits PRIOR to performing an action. Example: The backup volume and backup volumes quota values can restrict if a backup is allowed. The backup can be performed via REST API, but the quota cannot be c...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

powervc 2.0.3 without high availabity addon

You can only install powervc single node with available extension cost $399. I want to install powervc 2.0.3 on a single node not a high available cluster environment for test purposes etc . there for i have to enabel the high available extension ...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

“Bring your own web server” to support other webservers rather than Apache httpd only

“Bring your own web server” to support other webservers rather than Apache httpd only Some companies don't allow httpd
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Customizable install location of PowerVC (rather than always /opt/ibm and /var/logs)

We don't support the operating system, and PowerVC is just an application, so needs to be out of root filesystems
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

Enhance the Huawei Cinder Driver to be certified with PowerVC 2.0.3

Huawei Storage is used by a number of customers in Saudi Arabia who would like to use PowerVC for VM deployment with NPIV storage attached. Currently, PowerVC can only be used for vSCSI SSP storage because of the lack of functionality of the Huawe...
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 2 Future consideration

Support importing OVA files created by aix command "create_ova"

From development we have got information: "the OVA created by PowerVC has a different set of properties. So the one created using AIX command will not work here". Make it possible to import also OVA created from aix command "create_ova".
almost 2 years ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

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