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Hi there! Each time we come up with something better, we think of you first. You may have noticed that we actively listen to your requirements and bring you a better version of PowerVC each release. And guess, what we are up to now! Yes, you guessed it right. Today we’re officially releasing the 1.4.4...
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. For more information about pluggable storage, refer to this blog: How to register pluggable storage devices to PowerVC. Infinidat storage Infinidat storage solves the...
In the first blog, we have seen an impressive introduction to Initiator Port Groups. Just to reiterate, Initiator port groups (IPGs) define the set of VIOS ports to be used for volume attachment when using NPIV. The upcoming blogs in this series will try to demonstrate the use-cases listed: Isolating sets of FC ports based...
Setting up Active Directory Service on Windows 2016 Server and Configuring with PowerVC This blog describes how to setup Active Directory Service on Windows 2016 Server and configure the same with PowerVC. PowerVC supports two identity providers: Local OS registry LDAP registry By default, PowerVC uses OS registry for authentication. To use LDAP server authentication...
Starting version 1.4.4.0, PowerVC signs all packages that it ships and installs, thereby providing additional security. This also prevents package tampering by malicious entities. What is signing? Signing, done at the sender’s end, refers to public key encryption of hash of the target. At the receiver’s end, the hash of the target is generated again...
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