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Console for PowerVS via IBMCloud GUI

This idea was created a while back (IDEA-I-3218), and closed, with the only real comment from a developer being that they were not responsible for PowerVS. I should also comment that this problem only really applies to booting the PowerVS instance...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers Planned for future release

Ability to initiate an AIX memory dump on a non-responsive LPAR

When an LPAR becomes non-responsive AIX Support requires a system dump for analysis. With direct access to a HMC this is a simple operation, either through the GUI or in the CLI via the chsysstate command. The PowerVS CLI provides the "pi instance...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

When configuring ODF through Satellite, it would be great to have the assignment automatically label the storage nodes correctly so other workloads outside of ODF do not run there.

Today when using Satellite, if you want to setup storage nodes so they are separate from application nodes, you have to perform a config, then assignment, and then you will have to run a script on the cluster to label/taint the nodes correct as de...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite Planned for future release

Power image capture/import/export should support more than one concurrent operation

We build custom images of AIX and Linux (based on IBM stock images) for creating our VMs in our IBM Cloud Power Systems Virtual Servers workspaces. The process of building a new VM, customizing it, capturing that as an image, creating a new VM fro...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

Reclaim Improvements

Improvement to reclaim process to remove production IP's earlier in the reclaim process. Potential solutions are to reorder the steps a reclaim occurs in, or to add an account specific flag that allows some customers to skip the maintenance flag w...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal Planned for future release

Obtain FedRamp certification for IBM PowerVS to comply with the rigorous security standards defined by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRamp).

It is useful because achieving FedRamp certification ensures that organizations using IBM PowerVS meet the stringent security requirements defined by FedRamp, allowing them to work with federal government agencies and handle sensitive data securel...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

Enable AIX LPAR reboot with a dump option for a hung server.

We had a situation that AIX server was hung and rebooted the server. Customer requested for RCA of server hung. AIX Vendor support team could not able to provide the RCA as the server was not rebooted with dump option. The AIX server was not reboo...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

Please, add an option to remove AJAX and animations (IDEA-I-4283 Part 1)

IBM Power Virtual Server portal is slow, so I am asking for a lighter portal to make Power Virtual Server more user friendly. IDEA-I-4283 was marked as delivered, but nothing has changed Portal can turn slow as making impossible to use.
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

Make IBM Cloud CLI and API authorizations consistent

I usually use IBM Cloud CLI, and I am trying to use APIs for some specific commands I would like to run right from IBM i or AIX running in Power Virtual Server. Unfortunately I have found we need special authorities for APIs that should be simple....
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

Protect option on specific PowerVS VSIs

Please, add a checkbox to lock unexpected VSI removal. We are cloning PowerVS VSIs for test purposes with a schedulled task/job, and our concern is we could delete by error the production system. My request: A mechanism to lock VSIs manually, so w...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release