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IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

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Use Flash Express as swap storage for VM Guests

The Linux (compute) LPAR can access to Flash Express Storage. Could be very useful in terms of performance to use this storage as provider for vm's swap disks.The swap disk is generally included into ICIC flavors, very interesting if it can be dep...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Add support for zVM Layer 3 VSWITCH to ICIC

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center should support both Layer 2 and Layer 3 VSWITCHs that are defined in zVM.
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Allow multiple compute_disk_pool configurations

Currently ICIC only supports the use of a single DASD group via compute_disk_pool for local storage. We would like ICIC to support multiple DASD groups in order to allow users to provision persistent storage to a guest from these DASD groups.
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

More user roles & access control (2): customerized roles

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Export/Import a VM fron one cluster to another cluster

Useful to move a workload from one cluster (maybe old) to another cluster (maybe new)
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Copy/Paste enablemnet for Remote console access KVM

Will nice to have the copy and past feature Remote console access KVM in CIC. Since this kind of console is used in case of problem/issue many time some solution can be found on manual or forum, and the solution commanda could be many and very lon...
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

support vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

vdisk as swapdisk is z/VM recommendation for better performance.

Need VM relocation among z/VM compute nodes

To balance the workload among the compute nodes
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

SE workload migration

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about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

RHEL9 support

RHEL9 support including mgmt node and compute node
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review