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Status Submitted
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 18, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Create a key-value pair or implement regular expressions for labels SR-IOV Networks

As described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervc-cloud/2.3.2?topic=networks-physical-network-names, port labels are strings associated with SR-IOV physical ports. When you create a network, you can pick a physical network name and associate it with it. And when a VM is deployed, PowerVC will ensure that the network attached to the VM belongs to a specific physical network (corresponds to the specific physical port(s) of the SR-IOV adapter hw).

 

We are asking for is a new feature: additional processing logic applied on top of the physical network names in the form of key-value pairs rather than the current implementation of a simple string. If this feature is implemented, the use of physical port names in PVM may need to be modified.

 

Separate network needs to be created for each physical network name. There is a provision to assign a redundant physical network name to a network in PowerVC.

Idea priority Low

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