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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 ...
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...
Admin Bob was surprised to see that a new volume has been attached to his 'RHEL 7.5 dev' virtual machine. He immediately checked the 'Messages Tab' of his PowerVC project dashboard and was able to find that someone had attached the volumes on Dec 4th at 10 PM. However, he was unable to track the...
How about having users in PowerVC who can perform all configurations, setup the environment, perform daily operations but not do anything destructive? Exciting, right? If so, your wish has been granted! With PowerVC 1.4.3.1, we have introduced a new role known as the “Admin Assistant”, who has...
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PowerVC supports multi-tenancy. Management of projects can be done from PowerVC GUI. Refer to the 'Project and Role management' blog to learn more. Creating a project is a simple step; yet, an administrator must ensure that all virtual resources within a project are cleaned up before the...
PowerVC supports two identity providers: local OS registry and LDAP registry, for end user authentication. By default, it is configured to use the OS registry. Customers who would like to configure LDAP server can use the CLI command powervc-config identity repository –t ldap to configure...
PowerVC generates a self-signed X.509 certificate to secure its web interface and REST APIs during installation. It is highly recommended that you replace the default certificate with a CA-signed certificate (signed by an internal or external CA) in a production environment. This blog describes...
The intent of this blog is to cover some generic queries about LDAP configuration on PowerVC. For more details about configuring LDAP, visit the IBM PowerVC Knowledge Center . Can PowerVC be configured with LDAP using the PowerVC UI? No. PowerVC can be configured with LDAP only by using...
Have you ever struggled to give your end users access to the PowerVC UI, but don't want to give them real access to the PowerVC host? For example, I've seen a few scenarios recently where we want to make PowerVC UI publicly available, but still need PowerVC itself sitting on an internal...
A brief intro to projects and roles A project, sometimes referred to as a tenant, is a unit of ownership. Most resources, such as virtual machines, volumes, and images, belong to a specific project. To work with the resources belonging to a project, users must have a role in that project....