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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 29, 2026

official hypervisor support Vates / XCP-NG

Dear IBM Support,


We are a Belgian CSP who uses IBM Flash System Storage & IBM SVC3.

We have different models SVC and Flash Systems with host connection type fibre channel.

Flash System FS5200

Flash System FS7300

Flash System FS7600

SVC-V3

SVC-V2

We are running version 9.1 mainly


As many CSP we are moving away from Broadcom / VMware as hypervisor solution and today we use XCP-NG from Vates.

We see on IBM SSIC that xenserver 8.4 and so on is supported. XCP-NG is also based on XenServer as hypervisor.

What would require that IBM puts XCP-NG on the IBM SSIC storage interop list as supported hypervisor?


https://vates.tech/en/

This is their HCL

https://docs.vates.tech/compatible-solutions/hardware-compatibility-list

For most parts they refer to the HCL of Xen, when checking for IBM Storage, it is on that list.

https://hcl.xenserver.com/search/?type=storage&support_status=supported

Thank you in advance

Idea priority High