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    When deleting a Virtual Server Instance (VSI), the default state of the "Release the VSN attached to this instance" switch should be set to OFF.

    If the switch is left ON—whether due to oversight or misunderstanding—the Virtual Serial Number (VSN) will be released. This can lead to unintended consequences in scenarios where the VSN is intended to be retained for redeployment. For instance, ...
    about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

    IBMi PowerVS cloud VNC web console - Consider increase the idle timeout from default 30 minutes to 30 hours

    This idea is to increase the idle time for the Cloud VNC web console for IBMi LPARs. As a customer are impacted due to default idle time out of 30 minutes causing our Connections to drop with Console and Restricted backup or Maintenance performed ...
    9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 2 Functionality already exists

    Status page with GPU resource availability per zone

    We sometimes are using large GPU accelerated instances (H200, Gaudi 3 etc.) in IBM cloud and have run into the problem that when we provision a new instance there are no resources of the correct profile available in our preferred zone. It takes ab...
    6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

    Add Japanese image to PowerVS

    Currently, PowerVS only offers 2924/2984 as its IBM i boot image selection. I'd like a Japanese image, even if it's just as a secondary language. Setting up a separate COR server and installing Japanese would take a significant amount of time. Inc...
    about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

    Add more languages to the 5250 web console

    I have opened an IBM Cloud support case #CS3709065 When retrieving the available languages on the Web UI or with IBM Cloud CLI on SAO instances (same in Dallas and WDC and I guess on all countries) we can see these: 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 939 ...
    almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration

    Upgrade / Update IBM Power Server Firmware using Ansible.

    We can automate the process of upgrade / update Firmware for IBM Power Server using Ansible so that we can save time and effort.
    7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

    VM hibernation capability for IBM VPC instances

    Introduce the ability to hibernate Windows or Linux VMs in the IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure. This would persist the memory state of the VM, effectively stopping the VM and halting hourly billing. Currently, when a VM is stopped, without hibernatio...
    over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

    Monitoring shared pool utilization

    I would like to know the real/effective CPU utilization PowerVS shared pool in IBM Cloud. I have LPARs in pools that are lacking of compute. Before adding additionnal CE to those LPARs I need to know/validate if shared pool are correctly sized, an...
    about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 2 Functionality already exists

    add connection setting to enable connectivity between CPD aaS IKC and Reporting DB on Azure

    The customer is working with CPDaaS in EU/FRA. The customer wants to use the DQ reporting service of IKC. For this reason the customer wants to store DQ reporting information within an Azure DB. The customer is not allowedto store reporting inform...
    3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite 0 Under review

    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 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 13 Planned for future release

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