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Status Future consideration
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 23, 2018

Export shared storage pool images from PowerVC

It would be nice to be able to back up the shared storage pool images using the new regular backup command or something similar.
Using "dd" as the doc suggests works of course but it's definitely not user-friendly... and it could lead to huge problems if we mess up doing "dd" in the ssp directory.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Nov 5, 2020

    the IBM Cloud offering for Power systems PowerVS, VMLC , requires an OVA formatted image for use in their offering.

    As SSP managed import/export does not result in an OVA (but a raw disk transfer), SSP managed customer data have no option to move from on prem powervc managed Lpars to IBM Cloud , as there is no solution to generate an OVA for a PowerVC managed customer with SSP attached storage.

  • Guest
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    Feb 21, 2018

    Thank you for the suggestion, we will explore this for a future release.

  • Guest
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    Jan 31, 2018

    This would be a great enhancement as we were operating under the assumption that this would work out of the box to be able to export and move around captured images when 1.4. came out.

  • Guest
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    Jan 31, 2018

    This would be a great enhancement as we were operating under the assumption that this would work out of the box to be able to export and move around captured images when 1.4. came out.

  • Guest
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    Jan 31, 2018

    This would be a great enhancement as we were operating under the assumption that this would work out of the box to be able to export and move around captured images when 1.4. came out.