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IBM PowerVC integration into the architecture of NovaLink -managed Power Systems environments is depicted in Figure 4-2. 

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IBM PowerVC APIs are built on OpenStack and provide Power Systems customers an integration point for a multi-cloud infrastructure. 

At the time of writing, the POWER9 processor-based virtualization and cloud software stack includes the following elements: 

## 4.2.3 IBM PowerVC features 

GLYPH<SM590000> Hypervisor: PowerVM V3.1.1 

GLYPH<SM590000> Virtualized I/O: VIOS V3.1.1 based on AIX 7.2 TL4 

GLYPH<SM590000> Virtualization Management: NovaLink V1.0.0.16 

GLYPH<SM590000> Hardware Management: HMC/vHMC V9R1M940 

GLYPH<SM590000> Private Cloud Management: IBM PowerVC V1.4.4 

GLYPH<SM590000> Multicloud Management: vRealize Operations V7.5 

At the time of writing, IBM PowerVC V1.4.4 is the latest release, which introduces the following features: 

GLYPH<SM590000> IBM i license key injection. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Initiator storage tagging. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Enables pinning a VM to a specific host. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Inactive ( cold ) migration. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Image sharing between IBM PowerVC projects. 

GLYPH<SM590000> LPM VMs fallback to the original system after evacuation. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Dynamically add IBM PowerVC created VMs to the HMC user resource role. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Restricted admin role (new Admin Assistant role with no deletion access). 

