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Include backup of policies in icic-backup command and enable it for restore.

If foe some reason a user needs to modify the icic policies to adhere to some company requirements, this policy files needs to be backed up and restored, in order to rstore it during the icic update or a restore operation from backup
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Delivered

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Delivered

Support live resize and live guest relocation for on-boarded z/VM virtual machines

With ICIC previous implementation, on-boarded z/VM virtual machine is not able to be live resize and live guest migration, due to lack of IUCV server running in the virtual machine. We can install the IUCV server into the on-boarded virtual machin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Instana integration

Instana integration: issues have been identified during some customer PoC.Key for production as they expect similar experience on x86/pub cloud.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

More user roles & access control: predefined roles

More user roles & access control MVP1: predefined roles
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

RoCE - macvtap KVM

RoCE (macvtap KVM)
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Remote console access KVM

Emergency console access for "users" so KVM host console access does not need to be given
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Hipersockets

Customer especially Linux on z (not LinuxONE) customer has z/OS workload and hipersocket is recommended to connect between Linux and z/OS workload to gain better performance.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

cinder node HA - automation

Currently to manually migrate cinder node to another compute node (if need do maintenance work etc). Need automated solution.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

consumption-based chargeback

this requirement is about adding consumption based chargeback for zVM&KVM.chargeback is supposed a key feature to IaaS provider use case.Potential customers: Sogei, Citi; UHG; SSA, BCBS, Sicoob, etc.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered