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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PowerVM VIOS
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 13, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

Add Network Tunnelling support via VXLAN or GRE for PowerVM

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PowerVM lacks of support for SDN solutions and only supports legacy vlan based layer 2 networks.
Against this hypervisors under x86 supports network tunnelling technology. For example KVM supports VXLAN or GRE using OpenvSwitch. ESX supports VXLAN via NSX technology.
For PowerVM to compete against these solutions, PowerVM should enhance their network virtualization technology.
For these technology to work the hypervisor must act as the tunnelling endpoint (e.g. VXLAN Tunnelling endpoint or VTEP) and for PowerVM the Shared ethernet adapter on the VIOS needs to support this technology. Additionally it would be technical wise if it can connect to other non PowerVM VTEP devices or bridge it to non tunnelling networks.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 7, 2022
    IBM has evaluated the priority of this enhancement proposal relative to other future product content and determined that this Idea will not be pursued for a future product release
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 19, 2017

    Nova link to support VxLAN and GRE tunneling

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #76913 in product PowerVM VIOS.

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