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PowerVM VIOS

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Use multibos for VIO upgrade/recovery

We're about to start a new round of VIO upgrades and downtime and the rebuilding of a trashed VIO server is always a concern.Although we do have a two disk mirrored rootvg and therefore could unmirror rootvg and create an alternate rootvg image as...
about 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

PowerVM - Add MTU check to LPM Verification

System: PowerVMActor: Add MTU check to LPM verification The verification phase of PowerVM serves to provide a method of determining if a LPM will be successful Description: We recently had a series of systems fail after LPM due to MTU mismatch. We...
about 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

This is test RFE on 19 Aug 2015

This is test to check email notification back to the submitter
over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 3 Not under consideration

chdev on active adapter

Adding functionality to "chdev" to kick back "Device busy" when attempting to alter an active device.
over 9 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

LACP in LPAR of interfaces from dual VIOS

Currently when virtualizing an LPAR behind dual VIOS the network path taken by connections only goes through one VIOS server. This means that any network resources on the other VIOS server are not available for the LPAR. If the virtual switch prov...
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 4 Not under consideration

This is PowerVM VIOS RFE3 on 12 Feb 2015

This is Required
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

This is PowerVM VIOS RFE2 on 12 Feb 2015

This is Required
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

This is PowerVM VIOS RFE1 on 12 Feb 2015

This is Required
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

New Test 8 RFE for PowerVM VIOS on 06 Feb 2015

New Test 8 RFE for PowerVM VIOS on 06 Feb 2015
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration

New Test 7 RFE for PowerVM VIOS on 06 Feb 2015

New Test 7 RFE for PowerVM VIOS on 06 Feb 2015
almost 10 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration