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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 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 13 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 1 year ago in Power 9 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...
5 months ago in Satellite 2 Planned for future release

Clean up "Remote Commands" section

When I order a new Baremetal I see in the 'Remote Management' section the information of the restarts that preceded my order. I suggest cleaning up the 'Remote commands' section when a server is decommissioned.
19 days ago in Bare Metal 1

Ability to disable or extend session timeout for power virtual server lpar sessions

We are using the IBM Cloud services as our DR strategy. We have a couple of large databases that would have to be restored during a DR scenario or our annual tests. These database restores require interaction and run for nearly 4 hours. Disabling ...
about 2 years ago in Power 2 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...
4 months ago in VMware Solutions 0 Future consideration

Cloud monitoring for PowerVS Infrastructure

Cloud monitoring for powerVS should be enabled by native monitoring services.
2 months ago in Power 2

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...
5 months ago in Power 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to take snapshots on Power Systems Virtual Server

Issue: Currently, there is no GUI to take a snapshot of an instance on Power Systems Virtual Server. Solution: Make it easy to take a snapshot of your instance using the GUI. Effect: The convenience of the service is improved. Workaround:...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 2 Future consideration

Power VS do not have any mechanism to increase the timeout: VNC Console

Kindly increase the timeout for VNC console, there is high probability of disconnection in case of weekly backup. and backup can end immediately or stuck in between.
over 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration

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