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IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE

KVM Storage Migration Support Enhancement

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) does not currently provide a supported approach for migrating storage in environments running KVM. This limitation becomes a barrier when attempting to transition from one FlashSystem backend to another, as t...
5 months ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

Manage host attached DASD with Cinder to attach and detach to ICIC VMs

In some storage performance needs scenarios (i.e. Openshift ODF Disks) is required to have very good disk performance, that cannot be achieved using QCOW2 files. So it could be vey useful to direct attach/deatch a DASD (online in the hosts and not...
10 months ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

AI-Powered Intelligent Infrastructure Optimization Assistant for IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

I would like to propose introducing an AI-Powered Intelligent Infrastructure Optimization Assistant within IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center to help enterprise administrators proactively monitor, optimize, and manage Hybrid Cloud infrastructure thro...
26 days ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

Sharing published images between multiple ICIC environments

Glance offers the possibility to share and publish images across projects in a single ICIC environment. The idea is to offer to the ICIC administrator the possibility to synchronize multiple ICIC environment (e.g. lab, test, validation and product...
5 months ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

Add space in a volume attached to a vm

The idea is to offer the possibility to increment the global amount space of a disk attached to a running vm calling the openstack apis
5 months ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

ICIC should provide the ability to drop MACID from the NICDEF Directory Entry

By default ICIC defines a MACID for the NICDEF entry when a VM is created. We have configured our zVM LPARs to utilize a SYSTEM MAC PREFIX but when a MACID is provided the LPAR uses the USER PREFIX for the MAC Address. In order for us to set the U...
over 1 year ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

Allow manual setting of the ANSIBLE_HOST parameter

When the OpenStack Inventory plugin is used against ICIC the ANSIBLE_IP gets set to any of assigned IP addresses for the VM at random. For multi-interfaces VMs we should be able to set the preferred interface to use for ANSIBLE_IP.
over 1 year ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

ICIC Compatibility with Pure Storage (Terraform Dependency)

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) currently does not support integration with Pure Storage platforms. This limitation prevents ICIC from being deployed as the infrastructure management layer. This constraint has implications because Terraform...
6 months ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

Enhance ICIC to provide event notifications in addition to email

We would like to integrate ICIC with our event management tools (IBM Netcool Omnibus/Impact, Cloud Pak for AIOps) so that events are not sent via email but rather to these tools. At a minimum if we could send a webhook to our Omnibus probe, it wou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE Submitted

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