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I too have clients with Power VM and would like to use Turbo to manage their LPARS.
I understand Product Management's dillema: when a company buys your company, there is always the danger of becoming too focused on the best interests of the acquiring company rather than your client base, which inevitably leads to a diminution of your core value. In Turbo's case, our vendor-agnostic stance is a major value. So it makes sense for PM to say "we will only add features demanded by the market and consistent with our core design".
But there is another principle at work here, and that is the "Principle of Least Astonishment". Software should astonish the user as little as possible. And if you are a Power client, it is ASTONISHING that IBM Turbonomic ARM does not support it.
So, even if there is insufficient market demand to put this feature at the top of the 'must do' list, I claim that size of the Power client base combined with the principle of least astonishment provide ample justification for putting this on the near-term roadmap.