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PowerVC

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    PowerVC should fully support Policy-based HA

    A lot of IBM flashsystems are now supporting policy-based high availability (PBHA). And a lot of clients are eager to start using it.To my knowledge, IBM PowerVC still does not support PBHA. It also isn't in the announcement for PowerVC 2.3.2 (the...
    23 days ago in PowerVC 4 Future consideration

    PowerVC should fully support Peer Zoning

    Can we please get PowerVC to fully support Peer Zoning. It was an idea in 2023 but we now in 2025 and still no Peer Zoning. This is an industry best practice recommended by IBM and Broadcom.
    22 days ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC support for multiple SCG to the SAME VM

    Customer would like to be able to have more than 1 SCG for a given VM, for example using SCG X for disk and SCG Y for Tape for the same vm, powervc doesn't currently support than one scg per vm
    10 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Support Volumegroup snapshots in PowerVC

    Since SVC support Volumegroup based snapshots, please implement this feature in PowerVC.
    6 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Setting SVC Site attribute for VMs dependant on PowerVC Host Site

    We are using a SVC stretched cluster between two datacenters with one storage pool per datacenter in the SVC backend as our main storage in PowerVC. Dependant of the datacenter location of a VM we assign storage via "Storage Template" from the sam...
    5 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    Support for changing the name of a storage pool without impacting powervc

    Adding the ability to change the name of a storage pool without impacting PowerVC would simplify storage management. Currently, if a storage pool's name is changed directly on the storage array (an "out-of-band" change), PowerVC does not detect th...
    3 months ago in PowerVC 3 Future consideration

    Support Hybrid Network Virtualisation (HNV) on PowerVC

    When adding a new Network we would like to have the option besides SEA and vNIC to also have the possiblity to select a HNV network device. Adding this "Migratable SRIOV" adapter is already supported by HMC since some time, but there is no Support...
    8 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC 2.1.1.2 6-mounth history in Resource Assigment data

    Hello, in the context of a Project we would like to be able to have a 6-month history of the resource assignment data. I 've upload a file with an image of the section for which resources usage would be required. Thanks in advance for your collabo...
    9 months ago in PowerVC 1 Future consideration

    PowerVC running EOL MongoDB 5.0 embedded database

    Current PowerVC levels 2.2 and 2.3 both are running at MongoDB version 5.0 which is EOL as of October 31 2024. Please add latest version of the mongoDB to PowerVC versions 2.2 and 2.3
    19 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

    Since PowerVC is using Python 3.11 and the RedHat OS still depends on Python 3.9. Can't you have PowerVC run in a virtual Python 3.11 environment?

    The systems administrators (your customers) would benefit. As it stands today. we can either collect a powervc-diag or a sos report. we can't do both.
    about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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