I recently encountered issues with PowerVC 2.1.1 when attempting to communicate to HMC managed hosts. When attempting to deallocate or allocate storage that was allocated that were allocated using vSCSI the state of the task would remain in attaching/detaching state indefinitely within PowerVC. To troubleshoot the first step I always Read more…
The installation process with PowerVC 2.1 has significantly changed compared to previous versions of PowerVC. The new installation process includes a step to install PowerVC opsmgr which facilitates the install of PowerVC using ansible playbooks that it comes packaged with. When attempting to install (and follow IBM infocenter documentation) on Read more…
Edit: Updated based on recent testing using PowerVC 1.4.3.1, Terraform v0.12.9 and terraform-provider-openstack_v1.23.0_x4 So recently I started investigating into using Terraform and its Openstack provider to deploy LPARs on Power Systems via PowerVC. Throughout this process, I ran into a few issues due to limitations in the Openstack provider. Unfortunately, Read more…