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Network node HA

Network node HA
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Not under consideration

intergrate with 3rd party backup&restore solution

by intergrate with 3rd party backup&restore solution to have unified backup&restore solution that fit into customer's IT architecture and support multi platforms.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Functionality already exists

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Needs more information

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

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

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)
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Needs more information

load balancer at infrastructure layer

load balancer at infrastructure layer
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 6 Not under consideration

Domain per client

Domain per client with multiple projects, needs complete isolation from each other, can specify rules & parms. Domain is an openstack concept.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

Compute node HA

HA for compute node services (pcs nova, cinder, neutron etc)
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

remote console access /zVM

remote console access to the end user in IaaS provider use case when there is any issue for them to connect to the VM in regular ways.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration