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Version WPAR

WPAR is a supported product from Power Systems brand. With WPAR, client can run multiple virtual LPARs within an LPAR. It's like running containers within a VM. Currently all WPARs ( vritual lpars ) within an LPAR must be at the same level. In pre...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 1 Not under consideration

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...
4 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Accessing Power VS VM instance by using serial console

We would like to access our Power VS VM instances via their serial consoles similar to how it is done with IBM VPC: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vsi_is_connecting_console&interface=api
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Capture and Export VMs in PowerVS - status progress

Problem: Capture and Export just show "running" during execution ( ibmcloud pi job ls ) Proposed: adding a % of progress can be useful for any long-running tasks with unpredictable end. End comes out of the blue.
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

Introduce Db2 Mirror functionality in IBM PowerVS to provide organizations with high availability and real-time data replication capabilities for their Db2 databases.

DB2 Mirror is a critical aspect of high uptime and workload management. It is useful because Db2 Mirror enables continuous data availability, minimizing downtime and ensuring data consistency in case of database failures. Organizations using IBM P...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Future consideration

Add ISO virtual media support to PowerVS

A virtual ISO media repository could be amazing for install , migrate and restore purposes . Please add this feature to PowerVS
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Planned for future release

IBM Cloud (and specifically PowerVS) data centre in MEA region

Request for PowerVS service (and IBM Cloud) offering in MEA data centers for customers in the region.​ Almost all of the Hyperscalers have DCs across MEA. In order to compete with them, there has to be a least one DC in MEA. Current closest DC for...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

Details behind error condition with LPARs in PowerVS

Example: Attempted to deploy 2 LPARs in PowerVS, one would consistently fail - going into error state, with no other details. Tried a number of times to redeploy the one LPAR with the same result. Atempted the next day and it worked. . I checked w...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 51 Not under consideration

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 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review