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    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...
    11 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 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

    Current boot option is not viewable from PowerVS like it is on the HMC.

    It is possible to change the boot option from PowerVS, but there is no way to view what the current setting is. To ensure it is set correctly, one must change to the desired setting then trust that it was set correctly before rebooting the virtual...
    about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

    VMware Solution Day 2 Actions Capabilities

    Hi, as a customer of IBM Cloud, we offer VMware Solutions reselling to our customers. Customers who have cost considerations use shared infra services meaning multiple tenants hosted on a single compute cluster. To provide services to multiple cus...
    over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / VMware Solutions 0 Not under consideration

    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 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Planned for future release

    Add a CLONE command to the Power-IaaS Plugin in CLI

    We have built a couple of scripts to ease our IBM Power Virtual Server administration: exporting to disk, exporting to COS, snapshots, launching consoles on browser, and now we have built a clone VSI process, exporting to disk and building the VSI...
    about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 7 Functionality already exists

    Support from RedHat Openshift Virtualization on IBM Classic Bare Metal

    Hi, Since a lot of customers are now moving from VMware to alternatives it would make a lot of sense to support RedHat Openshift Virtualization (OVE) on IBM Classic Bare Metal. This since customers need a good virtualization alternative.
    about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal 3 Not under consideration

    Add support for Satellite Connector running on IBM VPC infrastructure

    Please add support for Satellite Connector with agents running on IBM VPC infrastructure. The FAQ for Satellite Connector ( https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/satellite?topic=satellite-connector-faq&interface=ui ) says: "Can I deploy Satellite Connect...
    almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite 0 Not under consideration

    Provide a path to migrate a virtual machine between regions

    On dW Answers, a customer said that they need the ability to migrate their VM from US South to EU-GB. You can see the thread at the following URL: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/249398/migrating-vm-between-us-south-and-uk-region.html
    over 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

    Proposal: Process Improvement for Floating IP Confirmation During VSI Deprovisioning

    Background In IBM Cloud’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment, a Floating IP is typically used to enable external access to a Virtual Server Instance (VSI).Since Floating IPs can be detached and reused across multiple resources, they provide f...
    about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

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