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Release notes

Use these release notes to learn about the latest changes to the IBM® Power® Virtual Server CLI plug-in.

April 2025

New CLI version v1.5.1 is available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

What's changed

  • Security update with CLI plugin dependencies.

March 2025

New CLI version v1.5.0 is available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

New commands

New flags

  • Added --virtual-serial-number flag to ibmcloud pi instance create command for IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location workspaces. Use this flag to add virtual serial number information to an IBM i instance.
  • Added --retainVSN flag to ibmcloud pi instance delete command for IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location workspaces. Use this flag to confirm whether the virtual serial number must be retained in your account after it is removed from the instance.

What's changed

  • In the IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location, if you enable the sap-subscription-mode option for the workspace, different options are displayed in the image list-catalog.
  • Added a default system to the instance SAP profile and the instance SAP list.

February 2025

New CLI version v1.4.2 is available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

New commands

  • Added ibmcloud pi network-address-group group of commands (create, delete, get, list, member-add, member-remove, and update) for IBM Power Virtual Server in IBM data center workspaces.
  • Added ibmcloud pi network-security-group group of commands (clone, create, delete, get, list, member-add, member-move, member-remove, rule-add, rule-remove, and update) for IBM Power Virtual Server in IBM data center workspaces.

New flags

  • Added --network-security-group-id flag to ibmcloud pi instance subnet attach for IBM Power Virtual Server in IBM data center workspaces. Use this flag to specify the network security group of which the network interface is a member.
  • Added --deployment-target flag to ibmcloud pi instance sap create command for IBM Power Virtual Server in IBM data center workspaces. Use this flag to specify the deployment of the dedicated host.
  • Added --user-tags flag to the ibmcloud pi volume onboarding create command for IBM Power Virtual Server in IBM data center and ibmcloud pi volume onboarding create command for IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location. Use this flag to add a list of user tags to be associated with the volumes when you onboard them.

What's changed

January 2025

New CLI version v1.4.1 is available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

What's changed

December 2024

New CLI version v1.4.0 is available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

New commands

  • Added ibmcloud pi instance virtual-serial-number family of commands (assign, unassigned, get, and update).
  • Added ibmcloud pi network-peer family of commands (list) for Client location workspaces.
  • Added ibmcloud pi virtual-serial-number family of commands (delete, get, list, and update).

New flags

What's changed

September 2024

New CLI version v1.3.0 is available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

New commands

New flags

What's changed

June 2024

New CLI version v1.2.0 available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

New commands

New flags

  • Added --import-details flag to ibmcloud pi image import command. Use this to import details for SAP image. You must include a license, product, and vendor. Valid license value: byol. Valid product value: Hana, Netweaver. Valid vendor value: SAP.
  • Added --storage-connection flag to ibmcloud pi instance create command. Use this to set the connection type. Valid value is vSCSI (more will be added in the future).
  • Added --storage-pool-affinity flag to ibmcloud pi instance create and ibmcloud pi instance update command. Use this to indicate whether all volumes attached to the server must reside in the same storage pool.
  • Added --deployment-target flag to ibmcloud pi instance create command. Use this to set the deployment of the dedicated host.
  • Added --host-id flag to ibmcloud pi shared-processor-pool create command. This flag is only available for dedicated hosts.
  • Added --checksum flag to ibmcloud pi image import, ibmcloud pi image export, and ibmcloud pi instance capture create on IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location workspaces. This creates a checksum file after the operation is complete.
  • Enable --shared-processor-pool, --IBMiCSS-license, --IBMiPHA-license, and --IBMiRDS-users flags on ibmcloud pi instance create command on IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location workspaces.
  • Enable --IBMiCSS-license, --IBMiPHA-license, and --IBMiRDS-users flags on ibmcloud pi instance update command on IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud in Client location workspaces.

What's changed The ibmcloud pi instance snapshot list command can now list all snapshots of an instance or all snapshots on the workspace depending on arguments.

April 2024

New CLI version v1.1.1 available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

March 2024

New CLI version v1.1.0 available. The Power Virtual Server CLI plug-in is available with the following features:

January 2024

  • New CLI version 0.7.1 available. Here are the changes for the new CLI version:

    New flags

    • "list-catalog": --sap Include SAP images.
    • "list-catalog": --vtl Include VTL images.

    What's Changed

    Removed --IBMiDBQ-license flag from instance-create command.

    Bug Fixes

    Fixed issue in instance-update command when --virtual-optical-device flag is not used.

December 2023

New CLI version 0.7.0 available. Here are the changes for the new CLI version:

New command

New flags

What's Changed

November 2023

New CLI version 0.6.0 available. Here are the new changes for the new CLI version:

New CLI version 0.5.0 available. Here are the new changes for the new CLI version:

September 2023

2022

December 2022

  • You can now get new error messages for undefined response codes for new service endpoint response codes.

September 2022

July 2022

  • You can now use Transit Gateway to interconnect your Power Virtual Server to the IBM Cloud classic and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

April 2022

  • Provisioning VTL instances is temporarily disabled.

2021

December 2021

  • You can now use Storage pools to set affinity policies by using CLI.
  • You can now use Create connection to set a 10 Gbps speed for your Cloud connection by using CLI.
  • You can now use Placement Groups to create placement groups and add VMs to set policies by using CLI.

October 2021

  • You can now use VPN to create VPN connection by using CLI.
  • You can now use VPN IKE policies to create an IKE policy for the VPN connection by using CLI.
  • You can now use VPN IKE policies to create an IPsec policy for the VPN connection by using CLI.

September 2021

  • You can now use Import Image to Import an image from IBM Cloud Object Storage by using CLI.
  • You can now use Jobs to View details of a job by using CLI.
  • You can now use Console language to update Language to Japanese.

May 2021

  • You can now use Cloud connection to automate the way you connect your Power Systems Virtual Server instances to the IBM Cloud resources by using CLI.

March 2021