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PowerVC

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PowerVC Host / Virtual Machine / Storage / Volumes Complete Inventory

This is help full for internal Auditing and tracking...
about 22 hours ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Disable feature which will power off a vm without user action

PowerVC design is to force a power off of a vm without operator action if PowerVC determines the state of the vm is not in agreement with it's internal known state openstack used to provide sync_power_state_interval to disable this feature by sett...
2 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Editing IPGs after adding new hosts in PowerVC

Unfortunately, there is no option to edit IPGs if they are already in use. However, if you add new hosts to the PowerVC. You must then set the tags for the new hosts for the respective WWPNs. (Example DATA/BOOT)
11 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

User with only (but all) advanced roles assigned should be able to perform LPM (Migrate)

Even if all additional roles at once are assigned to a user the "Migrate" option does not appear on LPARs. This should be the case, because such users have the ability to clone, delete and move VMs and volumes - which is everything a LPM does. Aft...
5 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

implement a newer version of mongodb version 8

currrently mongodb 5 is supported within the powervc version 2.2.1 & 2.3.0we require a more current mongodb version.
3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

PowerVC add support for mkvolume in place of mkvdisk

mkvdisk does not fully support iogroup placement ibm.com mkvolume Use the mkvolume command to create an empty volume from existing storage pools. You can use this command for high availability configurations that include HyperSwap, but it can also...
7 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Option to set mirror sync rate in PowerVC

For mirrored LUNs created through PowerVC in SVC, we are unable to automatically set the "Mirror Sync Rate".The default value of 2MiB/s is not fast enough. We would like to see an option in PowerVC to set the mirror sync rate for mirrored LUNs in ...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Powervc UI security weakness test application for potential removal

Disable Auto Index Module Remove all sample content and features remove location match Restrict the use of Status module Restrict Weak Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Ciphers Disable Info module Disable User Directories module Disable Web-based Distrib...
3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Network Setup with vNIC and four VIOS

The customer operates a PowerVM landscape with four VIOS, where an explicit separation of disk and network io per server pair is desired. When a VM is deployed, it cannot be selected on which server pair the logical functions will be created, whic...
3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted