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Allow Clusters to be Assigned to Maintenance Windows for Master Fixpack Auto Patching

Currently IBM is responsible for patching the Master / Control plane fix packs. There is no rhyme or reason on how the fixpacks are applied. Ideally we could patch nonproduction first before production. It would also be nice if we could assign clu...
26 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite Submitted

PowerVS Disabling Automated Remote Restart, but move a instance another healthy host

The current Disabling ARR prevents moving to another host after a host when failure.But we need new behavior to Disabling ARR - "A instance is moved to another healthy host . But it is not automatically restarted. When a host is failed, we don't w...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Functionality already exists

Network Security Groups for PowerVS public interfaces

A customer configured a public interface/IP address on their PowerVS VSI to allow outbound EDI connections. They are experiencing a large number of inbound hacking attempts. They would like to enable PowerVS Network Security Groups on the public i...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Improve 1-image-import-at-a-time bottleneck situation with ibmcloud power image import

This heavily impacts customers that are frequently building custom images for ppc64le. The single import bottleneck makes parallel image building exceptionally challenging (time-wise and effort-wise due to needing workarounds), pipelines are spend...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Allow to disable EVENT notifications in the portal.

When logged in the portal and using the CLI or APIs to make changes in Power Virtual Server, the user in the portal receives all the notifications (if you are changing volumes, for instance, this can be a lot) and needs to wait untll they are clos...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Future consideration

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.
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

WebConsole Cut&Paste - Fix and change request

The cut&paste is a really great improvement that many users were asking for from the beginning of PowerVS. Fix request: I have tried to use the VSI WebConsole Cut&Paste feature following the docs using Windows, Linux and MacOS with no succ...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Functionality already exists

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

Use Tier-3 volumes when creating a boot image from an exported VSI

When exporting a VSI to an Image Catalog (probably confusing term for IBM i guys) , the boot image uses the same Tier on the source volumes. Boot Images are not production data, but data on rest, and cost is the same than VSI attached ones. Please...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

PowerVS: Dashboard for VM update history

Currently, to check a VM’s update history, users must navigate to the Events tab and search through logs. This process can be cumbersome, and even with search functionality, it’s not always easy to retrieve all relevant entries. Additionally, the ...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Not under consideration