Feature

Overview

Description

What’s New

You can view features of each fix pack from the IBM® Wave user interface.

To view the What’s New window, click Help > What’s New.

Working with dynamic memory and CPUs

Without recycling the guest, you can dynamically increase memory, CPUs, or both for an active guest.

Two corresponding new actions are available from the popup menu for an active guest to facilitate dynamically adding CPU and Memory. 

The Administrative > Manage Parameters > Threshold tab is now named "Thresholds and Defaults" and contains new default and threshold values for memory and CPUs. There are also new permissions available in the project scope to control access to these functions.

New Linux support

Ubuntu Server 16.04

IBM Wave supports Ubuntu Server 16.04 as a managed guest.

Extending storage by using existing storage in a volume group (VG).

You can extend existing storage before you allocate new storage.

Depending on the requested storage versus the available storage, you can now extend storage in the VG directly in the Extend Storage pane.

The ability to set the default for the extend action is included with this feature. If necessary, go to Administrative > Manage Parameters > Functionality > Storage File System, and then select the check box "When extending a file system, set the default to extend from VG storage".

Disabling connectivity sampling for dormant guests.

You can decide how the connectable guest periodic task handles dormant guests.

To disable the connectable guest periodic task from interacting with dormant guests, check the "Disable connectivity check for dormant guests" in the Administrative > Manage Parameters > Functionality tab.

Indicating dormant guests with a new icon.

You can easily spot a dormant guest by viewing its waning crescent moon icon.

Hardening security by removing the requirement for the Service Machines to use the LOGON password.

For file transfer, the Service Machines are accessible by using the Authorized API User credentials through the LOGONBY statement.

You can configure the IBM Wave Service Machines to use the LOGONBY statement for Linux Bare-metal Installation (BMI), and the Auto-Detect and doUpdate processes.

Specifying virtual address range for storage groups.

You can specify a range of virtual device addresses per storage group.

Minidisk allocation, during a manage storage process, can be controlled by a following new storage group definition options:
- Use next available virtual address for allocating minidisks.
- Use next available virtual addresses from range specified by Start and End adresses for allocating minidsks.