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IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

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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...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 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...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 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.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 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...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Submitted

Network Security Group

It would be highly beneficial to have the capability to define security groups not only in relation to a virtual machine but also to an entire network. This would allow all virtual machines connected to a specific network to inherit the correspond...
about 1 month 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 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1

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 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Add ability to include tags to the provisioned resources

Adding tags with metadata about the resources like Virtual Servers will help in large ICIC installations. These tags may be later used to filter resources in operations like inventory, billing, maintenance, automation and so on. Tags are defined b...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 4 Needs more information

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration