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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 11, 2019

Image snapshot support for SDS environments in PowerVC

PowerVC is the OpenStack implemetation for POWER servers. In new versions PowerVC can be installed as SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) edition.
The storage part of the SDI is implemented with Spectrum Scale 5.x which is shipped with PowerVC.
PowerVC controls Spectrum Scale in the environment.

We use the SDI implementation in our new Power Cloud enviroment with the Spectrum Scale FPO option in Novalink.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Aug 4, 2022
    New RFE is already created for this to track for new model
  • Guest
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    Dec 9, 2020

    Thank you for your suggestion - we will consider this for a future release.