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Search results: PowerVM VIOS

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Request Network cards SFP stats used for VIOS servers

VIO servers have fcstat that displays stats for the transceiver (SFP), so far I have not found a complement for network cards SFPs. I have found that ethtool for Linux does display a lot of info for the SFP's, and need this info for network SFPs, ...
22 days ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Submitted

Would like to see NVMe over TCP/IP supported in the IBM Power Hardware and IBM Storage offering lines

NVMe/TCP is to provide a low latency, shared storage solution to take advantage of existing high speed network infrastructure. Would like to see this supported within the VIOS so that all supported OS's ( AIX / IBM i / Linux on Power ) can take ad...
over 1 year ago in PowerVM VIOS 7 Future consideration

PowerVM VIOS, the Shared Ethernet Adapter device (SEA) needs support for IEEE802.3 Ethernet frame type

The SEA device in all VIOS releases is only designed for handling the EthernetV2 frame type with TCP/IP checksum offloading and the largesend/large_receive features.If a VIO client LPAR (IBMi or AIX or Linux) is configured to use IP interfaces wit...
almost 5 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 0 Future consideration

Want to see in a vnicserver output in a VIOS the client partition name and if it is AIX or Linux Client

Help to configure proper card parameter for vNIC
about 2 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Needs more information

Include linux screen command in VIOS

Hello, We would like that VIOs support a similar command as the screen command in the linux world. Thank you OD
about 7 years ago in PowerVM VIOS 2 Not under consideration