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Hello world! The wait is over to experience the few more exciting features and fixes in our signature virtualization product – PowerVC. Today we’re officially releasing the 1.4.2 fix pack, which contains the following updates: Redundant HMC support PowerVC allows you to manage a host through more than one HMC, where the first registered HMC...
PowerVC lets you register several storage drivers directly (called integrated storage devices), but it also supports registering pluggable storage devices. A pluggable storage device is just an OpenStack supported storage device. Any storage device supported by an OpenStack driver can be registered with PowerVC, but the level of functionality that it has within PowerVC depends...
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While PowerVC integrates with and manages most SAN storage providers, organizations often also need Fibre Channel tape drives to store backups and archives. Starting with PowerVC 1.4.2, administrators can register Fibre Channel tape drives in PowerVC, allowing PowerVC workloads to use tape drive volumes to perform backups. Attaching a tape volume in PowerVC enables virtual...
When existing volumes are managed, they do not have storage templates (volume types) associated with them. This can cause problems. For example, consistency groups require a storage template. Starting with PowerVC 1.4.1, the administrator can set the storage template ID for a volume. In this blog we will show you how to use the set-template...
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As an administrator, you might want a quick way to identify which volumes were created for PowerVC. With PowerVC 1.4.1 or later, you can do this by specifying a custom volume naming template for PowerVC to use when creating volumes. The template is used by Storwize, XIV, and Hitachi storage providers to generate the name...