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Hi Abderahim,
We need to talk on the possible solution on your use case. Please let me know if we can have some meetings planned for detailed discussion on my email Imran.kazi@in.ibm.com
You can close this request, it's delivered on RFE / 124189.
Thanks a lot.
RFE developed on :
Deploy a virtual machine using existing boot and data volumes
PowerVC images are backed by storage volumes. When an image with volumes is deployed, the virtual machine uses the clone copy of the image volumes. You can now choose to create an image without any volumes attached. While deploying this image, you can select the existing volumes in the Deploy template. This prevents cloning of volumes and avoids any data redundancy. For details, see Deploy an image using existing volumes. RFE ID: 124189.
Thanks
Hello IBMers
Thank you, yes, i agree. That will help us to deploy new AIX easily with PowerVC, and storage team will continue to manage their storage systems.
Abderahim
Thanks for reaching out with your requirement and we apologize for delay in response here.
We might need some discussion to understand your requirement better and provide viable solution. Are you OK with the new feature that will allow you to use the existing SAN volume created by your SAN admin in PowerVC? instead of creating the new SAN volume during each deploy.
Let us know if you are fine discussing requirements over call.