IBM PowerVC integration into the architecture of NovaLink -managed Power Systems  environments is depicted in Figure 4-2. 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: Figure 4-2 IBM PowerVC integration into NovaLink -managed Power Systems environments 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 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). Chapter 4. Virtualization and cloud capabilities  103 4.2.3 IBM PowerVC features At the time of writing, IBM PowerVC V1.4.4 is the latest release, which introduces the  following features: