Overview

This is a tool to help with managing of resources in IBM Power Systems Virtual Server.

❗ There is no formal support for any problems with this repo. For issues please open a GitHub issue

Installation

Binary

Go to the releases page
Select the latest release and download the relevant binary under the Assets section.
Run the pvsadm --help command to check the available subcommands and the options.

Homebrew

Note: Currently supported only for Mac(x86&arm) and Linux(x86)

brew install ppc64le-cloud/pvsadm/pvsadm

or

brew tap ppc64le-cloud/pvsadm
brew install pvsadm

Image Management

Sub command under the pvsadm tool to perform image related tasks like image conversion, uploading and importing into the IBM Power Systems Virtual Server instances. For more information, refer to the pvsadm image --help command.

The typical image workflow comprises of the following steps:

Download the qcow2 image.
Convert the downloaded qcow2 image to ova using pvsadm image qcow2ova command.
Upload the ova image to IBM Cloud Object Store Bucket using pvsadm image upload command.
Import the ova image to IBM Power Systems Virtual Server instances using pvsadm image import command.

'How To' Guides

How to convert CentOS qcow2 to ova image format - guide
How to convert RHEL qcow2 to ova image format - guide
How to convert RHCOS(Red Hat CoreOS) qcow2 to ova image format - guide
Advanced scenarios for Qcow2 to ova image conversion - guide
How to import image to PowerVS instance from COS - guide
How to upload image to COS bucket using pvsadm - guide
How to build DHCP supported centos image - guide

Samples

Please take a look at the samples folder for end-to-end examples.

For bugs/enhancement requests etc. please open a GitHub issue

License

varad-ahirwadkar/pvsadm

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