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Status Future consideration
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on May 23, 2017

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No root authority needed on storage for DRO alone

Client wants to use PowerVC for its sole DRO functionality. No short term plan for deploying VMs with PowerVC. Nevertheless, PowerVC requires "root" authority on storage and SAN linked to the partitions. Due to client's organization and needs, this is a show stopper. Even though PowerVC needs all information for the managed partitions, could you change the requirement in this case for Read Only since nothing will be modified on the storage/SAN side.
Thank you.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     May 26, 2017

    Thank you for the suggested enhancement - we will consider this for a future release. In general, the primary objective of PowerVC is to automate the provisioning process such that you can quickly provision and de-provision your cloud infrastructure - hence the dependency on the underlying storage infrastructure. That said, we do recognize there are situations in which users want to restrict operations that would result in "write" operations to the SAN.

    To that end, we want to ensure folks are aware of what can be done with the product as it currently exists to help mitigate this issue. PowerVC has built the concept of "roles" [1] that allow admins to restrict the types of operations that users can perform within PowerVC. For example, there is a "vm_user" role that allows a VM to be started, stopped, etc., but does not allow anyone to deploy new VMs, create volumes, etc.

    [1] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSXK2N_1.3.2/com.ibm.powervc.standard.help.doc/powervc_supported_roles_hmc.html

    Thanks again for your interest in IBM PowerVC!

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