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IBM Cloud Pak System

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Support to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 VMs

IBM Cloud Pak System provides for deploying VMs running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7 today. In addition, support is available for VMs running Microsoft Windows 2012, 2016 and 2019. This is documented here in the IBM product documentatio...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Delivered

possibility to use a cipher other than SHA1 by encrypting the backup

There are some limitations with regard to private key used with the backup and restore process. The private key file uploaded must be a PEM encoded private key. The maximum key size allowed is 8192 bits.Currently private key is expected to be a SH...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Delivered

Support newer versions of WebSpheer Application Server and Java on Cloud Pak System

Latest version of the WebSphere Application Server pattern type is v2.3.3.4 (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system-maintenance-and-integrated-components-ibm-cloud-pak-system-version-2335). This version was released on 6th May 2022 and suppo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Delivered

Decoupling WebSphere Application Server patterns and Cloud Pak System releases

Currently, IBM used to deliver a new version of the WebSphere Application Server Pattern type as part of the default content for new CPS releases. WebSphere Application Server Pattern type is actually composed of 2 artefacts: - the WebSphere Appli...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Delivered

Use of TLS 1.2

In recent vulnerability assessment report we were recomended to close TLS1.0 and TLS 1.1 in IBM BlueMix Appliance. But as per SR there is no provision as of now to disable the same. So we need support for disabling TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Delivered

Collecting FFDC data for compute nodes

IBM Cloud Pak System UI provided the possibility to collect compute node LOG file collections via "System troubleshooting". These compute node LOG collections contains a separate FFDC ( First Failure Data Capture) ZIP file which contains NOT curre...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Delivered

IBM shared-service 'Red Hat Satellite Six Service' using Red Hat Global Registration Template to register RHEL VM's on CPS

Since Red Hat Satellite 6.8.x the preferred mechanism for host registration in Satellite is changed to using the Global Registration Template (GRT) and the former registration method is deprecated. In a future Red Hat Satellite version Global Re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Delivered

Multi-cloud support for Workload Mobility

IBM Cloud Pak System 2.3.3.3 Interim Fix 1 introduced a new feature called Workload Mobility, allowing clients to move Virtual System Instances (VSIs) – consisting of one or more Virtual Machines (VMs) – from one IBM CPS appliance to another one (...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Delivered

Wrong number of cores reported in UI on GEN3

The PSM on GEN3 PureApplication System/Cloud Pak System has 20 cores.The UI shows only 16 cores (Hardware> Management Nodes > PureSystems Manager).
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Delivered

Vmotion across racks

Looking for the ability to Live Vmotion a VM across racks. This feature could be limited to Vmware Cloud Groups, since VMs deployed as full-fledged, maestro-controlled patterns bear additional complexities. But for standard VMs deployed directly t...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Delivered