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Enable modification of an existing storage template to add some more I/O groups

Allow adding more I/O group in the existing storage template
almost 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Add Red Hat support in PowerVC SDI server nodes

We have proposed the PowerVC SDI solution to a Canadian university and they noted that they have free Red Hat licenses to apply to their solution however we specified Ubuntu 16.04 for the server nodes because this is the only supported hypervisor....
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Integrate Pure Storage Cinder driver into PowerVC

Please integrate the Pure Storage Cinder driver into PowerVC. Pure Storage is a core Cinder team member and has had in-tree Cinder drivers in OpenStack since the Juno release.
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

Add a column for "Volume ID" when looking at Host Volumes, Data Volumes, and Boot Volumes

It will help us in determining when reclaiming disks as AIX "hdisks" do not translate to the volume name in PowerVC. This is a tedious process when finding a volume to delete when there are hundreds of volumes provisioned. If we see a "Volume ID" ...
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 1 Delivered

Powervc 2.0.1.1 functionality to support Pure storage to create hyper swap/async volumes.

All those organizations which are using non-IBM storage and need to deploy VM's with hyper swap and async volume in different Halls of a DC (hyper swap volumes) and different DC (async- volumes)
over 1 year ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

POWERVC - Multiple SAN port tags

We would like the ability to provide multiple SAN port tags in PowerVC.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Ability To Specify Memory In GB Instead of MB In Multiple Places

It would be beneficial to have the ability to specify memory values in GB instead of or in addition to MB in many areas inside of PowerVC. Possibly by adding a toggle that switches between MB/GB like on the HMC interface. We typically allocate mem...
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 3 Delivered

PowerVC - Option to email out DRO Events instead of just logging them

DRO Events can only be seen through the PowerVC GUI. Instead of having to login to the GUI to check for new events, there should be an option to have them sent to an external email address.
about 5 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

PowerVP - Add virtual IP support for mover partitions

Currently PowerVC only supports SEAs and backing devices for MSPs. We would need the HMC team to provide VEA IPs in REST responses in order to validate the user specified IPs (from conf).
over 6 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

Enhance Zoning Algorithm in PowerVC to prevent ISL hops

This enhancement is based on using PowerVC 1.3.3 in our environment that uses PowerVM, dual VIOS (each with a Fibre Channel Port to Fabric A and B), Cisco FC Switches (multiple switches with ISL between) and IBM SVC clustered storage subsystem. Cu...
almost 7 years ago in PowerVC 4 Delivered

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