A new PowerVC will be launched in the next month, but no news about its compatibility with Policy-Based HA (PBHA).

All the IBM Flashsystems were migrated from Hyperswap to PBHA, and the PowerVC continues to not support it. 

IBM Power Virtualization and Platform Enhancements 4Q 2025

IBM PowerVC 2.3.2

• Enhancements to Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) support
• Affinity Hard Enforce Rules: Options to fail or warn if low affinity score at LPAR activation
• Affinity hints
• PowerVC Appliance: Introducing a new PowerVC deployment model where PowerVC and the underlying OS are bundled together into a single image. Install PowerVC directly onto your PowerVM LPAR (no need to bring your own Linux to host PowerVC).
  • Classic deploy model (bring your own Linux) continues to be an option with PowerVC 2.3.2

Yep, PBHA support is not there yet, which is crazy considering how long it's been available and that new Flashsystems won't support MM/GM.

Phill.

A new PowerVC will be launched in the next month, but no news about its compatibility with Policy-Based HA (PBHA).

All the IBM Flashsystems were migrated from Hyperswap to PBHA, and the PowerVC continues to not support it. 

IBM Power Virtualization and Platform Enhancements 4Q 2025

IBM PowerVC 2.3.2

• Enhancements to Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) support
• Affinity Hard Enforce Rules: Options to fail or warn if low affinity score at LPAR activation
• Affinity hints
• PowerVC Appliance: Introducing a new PowerVC deployment model where PowerVC and the underlying OS are bundled together into a single image. Install PowerVC directly onto your PowerVM LPAR (no need to bring your own Linux to host PowerVC).
  • Classic deploy model (bring your own Linux) continues to be an option with PowerVC 2.3.2

A new PowerVC will be launched in the next month, but no news about its compatibility with Policy-Based HA (PBHA).

All the IBM Flashsystems were migrated from Hyperswap to PBHA, and the PowerVC continues to not support it. 

IBM Power Virtualization and Platform Enhancements 4Q 2025

IBM PowerVC 2.3.2

• Enhancements to Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) support
• Affinity Hard Enforce Rules: Options to fail or warn if low affinity score at LPAR activation
• Affinity hints
• PowerVC Appliance: Introducing a new PowerVC deployment model where PowerVC and the underlying OS are bundled together into a single image. Install PowerVC directly onto your PowerVM LPAR (no need to bring your own Linux to host PowerVC).
  • Classic deploy model (bring your own Linux) continues to be an option with PowerVC 2.3.2

An idea has been raised in the ideas portal for this (not by me) - https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PVC-I-558 the more votes the better.

A new PowerVC will be launched in the next month, but no news about its compatibility with Policy-Based HA (PBHA).

All the IBM Flashsystems were migrated from Hyperswap to PBHA, and the PowerVC continues to not support it. 

IBM Power Virtualization and Platform Enhancements 4Q 2025

IBM PowerVC 2.3.2

• Enhancements to Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) support
• Affinity Hard Enforce Rules: Options to fail or warn if low affinity score at LPAR activation
• Affinity hints
• PowerVC Appliance: Introducing a new PowerVC deployment model where PowerVC and the underlying OS are bundled together into a single image. Install PowerVC directly onto your PowerVM LPAR (no need to bring your own Linux to host PowerVC).
  • Classic deploy model (bring your own Linux) continues to be an option with PowerVC 2.3.2

Thanks Phil,

I also logged a new idea for Peer Zoning. Please vote for it as well.

https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PVC-I-559

Then I also found a previous one from 2023. Please vote.

https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PVC-I-457

An idea has been raised in the ideas portal for this (not by me) - https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PVC-I-558 the more votes the better.

A new PowerVC will be launched in the next month, but no news about its compatibility with Policy-Based HA (PBHA).

All the IBM Flashsystems were migrated from Hyperswap to PBHA, and the PowerVC continues to not support it. 

IBM Power Virtualization and Platform Enhancements 4Q 2025

IBM PowerVC 2.3.2

• Enhancements to Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) support
• Affinity Hard Enforce Rules: Options to fail or warn if low affinity score at LPAR activation
• Affinity hints
• PowerVC Appliance: Introducing a new PowerVC deployment model where PowerVC and the underlying OS are bundled together into a single image. Install PowerVC directly onto your PowerVM LPAR (no need to bring your own Linux to host PowerVC).
  • Classic deploy model (bring your own Linux) continues to be an option with PowerVC 2.3.2