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PowerVC

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Drop down lists to have a search function.

Currently, to find an item in the drop down lists in PowerVC, you have to look for the item that you need manually, there is no search function. In large environments with many projects and storage templates this becomes cumbersome. Having search ...
15 days ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

Dropdown lists to be sorted alphbetically

Currently the drop down lists in PowerVC appear to be sorted by the openstack object ID number. This is not very user friendly especially when there are a large number of items in the list. It would be much better if these lists were sorted alphab...
15 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.
17 days ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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 2 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

PowerVC Support for selected I/O Group at SVC Host Creation

We have a customer with a larger number of hosts (> 256) each having 8 FC ports (paths). Because PowerVC for the deployment of new VMs creates the host object on the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in each SVC I/O group the SVC's limit of 2048 ...
about 2 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Project names should be more clearly visible and sorted

When you start PowerVC it asks you which project you wish to work on (if you have access to more than one I guess). It displays prominently across the top of the screen. If you want to change the project you are working on, you get a short list of...
3 months ago in PowerVC 1 Submitted

PowerVC: LDAP registration support for special character

PowerVC ldap registration has limited support for special characters making registration difficult
3 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Support OIDC / SAML SSO in addition to local OS/LDAPs authentication

LDAPs while better than local auth has a number of issues that make it less than optimal in an enterprise environment: - Authentication locks due to failed credentials- Shoehorned-in MFA- credentials are managed through the application vs. externa...
5 months ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

Compliance - Data retention policy required for data and logs within powervc

To comply with the data retention policy, we need to implement a mechanism within PowerVC that automatically removes older data and logs from both the tool and the underlying system.
about 1 month ago in PowerVC 0 Submitted

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