Feature support of PowerVC for Private Cloud edition
PowerVC for Private Cloud offers different functionality depending on the edition you have installed and what hypervisor you are using to manage your systems.
The following is not an exhaustive list of features, but is meant to highlight the major differences in the functions available on PowerVC for Private Cloud, depending on whether you are using PowerVM® via NovaLink, or PowerVM via HMC as your hypervisor.
| PowerVC for Private Cloud | ||
|---|---|---|
| General | Simple Install Experience | Yes |
| Host Maintenance Mode | Yes | |
| Optimized User Experience | Yes | |
| Multiple Projects | Yes | |
| Multi-factor authentication | Yes | |
| Virtual Machine Capabilities | Life Cycle Management | Yes |
| Live Capture | Yes | |
| Live Migration Mix and match of host types is supported. Live migration only works between hosts of same hypervisor type. |
Yes | |
| Inactive Migration Virtual machines that are in Shutoff state can only be migrated to a similar host. For example, virtual machines on an HMC host can be migrated to another HMC host. |
Yes | |
| Image Management | Yes | |
| Remote Restart | Yes | |
| Resize | Yes | |
| Automated Remote Restart | Yes | |
| Collocation Rules | Yes | |
| Host Groups | Yes | |
| Integrated Virtual Machine Console | Yes | |
| Persistent memory virtualization for virtual machine | Yes | |
| Clone virtual machines | Yes | |
| Virtual machine snapshot or restore | Yes | |
| Scalability | HMC: 45 hosts, 5000 virtual machines. For Compute plane node-specific
scalability matrix, see Compute plane
nodes. NovaLink: 60 hosts, 10000 virtual machines, and 20000 volumes |
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| Storage Capabilities | Fibre Channel Port Configuration | Yes |
| NPIV | Yes | |
| Supported SAN Device Drivers |
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| Supported SAN Switch Drivers | Brocade and Cisco | |
| Shared Storage Pools | Yes | |
| vSCSI | Yes | |
| Clone volumes | Yes | |
| Retype | Yes | |
| Consistency groups and Group snapshots | Yes | |
| Network Capabilities | Shared Ethernet Adapter | Yes |
| SR-IOV (vNIC) | Yes | |
| On-demand VLAN provisioning and optimization | Yes | |
| Dynamic Resource Optimization | Ongoing Virtual Machine Placement and Migration | Yes |
| Capacity on Demand | CPU Capacity on Demand | Yes |
| Memory Capacity on Demand (Supported on PowerVM via NovaLink) | Yes | |
| Power Enterprise Pool 2.0 | Yes | |
| Cloud Capabilities | Approvals and Expirations | Yes |
| Deploy Templates | Yes | |
| Email Notifications | Yes | |
| Project level Metering | Yes | |
| Self Service Portal | Yes | |
| OpenStack API support | For PowerVC supported OpenStack related information, see OpenStack APIs. | |